This software is a very simple way to manage your (electronic) parts. It supports storage locations and components which are attached to those storage locations. A component entry features multiple specifications like category, datasheet hyperlink, supplier and so on. There's also the feature to have a component countable with a stock value or non countable.
You can use this Software with a LAMP Stack, or much easier Docker. For the Docker way you just need to invoke following Docker command:
docker run -v /my/path/.env:/var/www/html/.env -p 80:80 berkutta/parts_manager
The recommended .env config file looks like the following, change mysql credentials to your setup. The mysql server needs to be run external and isn't included in the docker image:
APP_KEY=base64:MGrJqE4HL/BZwwDPrxHarRJvJvj6SU1vz1D0oide7i8=
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=host
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=db
DB_USERNAME=user
DB_PASSWORD=pass
After the first run it's recommended to generate a new App Key. Enter the Docker Container Bash console for this and execute the following command:
php artisan key:generate
After the first run you also want to create a username in the database. Enter the Docker Container Bash console for this and enter the laravel tinker console:
php artisan tinker
Execute the following commands within the laravel tinker console. Modify them to your needs.
$user = new App\User();
$user->username = 'username';
$user->password = Hash::make('the-password-of-choice');
$user->name = 'name';
$user->email = 'the-email@example.com';
$user->save();
If you are also lazy like me I recommend to install watchtower on your system. The watchtower container checks every 5 minutes if a image of a running docker container on your system has a newer image available on docker hub. If there is a new one it downloads and restarts the container: watchtower
There is also a very basic plugin system available. With it it is possible to add custom buttons into the UI and control things like lighting up boxes in your assortement box.
I don't even know if it is a good idea to put this piece of software online. I started creating this software in 2015. As a little explanation, I had no idea on how PHP or even Web technologies work back then. So this piece of software is really just a pile of very bad code.
Beginning 2018 I have started implementing a very basic and at least as bad API to this software. I basically just copied over the Database access code from the main software file and added some mode switching via switch-case statement.
End 2018 I want to pull the Raspberry Pi out of service on which this software is running on. My plan is to still run this software on a Docker Container. Thus I had the chance to improve the software agan a little bit during the process of making this software Docker compatible.
Beginning 2019 I finally started to refactor this whole software to the Laravel PHP Framework. With this refactoring the software is now in a usuable state.