StepUp Messenger

Stepup Messenger is a Messenging Community App Built for Step Up Womens Network

Testing Messenger

Requirements

Apache HTTP Server
MySQL Server
PHP >5.2
Git
Composer
Node

Instructions

Step 1: Setup a development enviroment

You will need to setup a local *AMP enviroment (Apache, MySQL and PHP) in order to test StepUp Messenger. *AMP packages can be found for different platforms:

MAMP for Mac OS
WAMP for Windows
LAMP for Linux

Step 2: Install git

You will need Git to keep your test version of StepUp up to date. Unless you already have Git installed, you can download it from here.

Step 3: Pull down StepUp Messenger from github

Create a directory named "step_up" in the www root. Next, open the directory in the terminal and type:

$ git init
$ git clone https://github.com/jel-massih/step_up

Step 4: Install dependencies

StepUp uses composer to handle its php dependencies. Go to the step_up/api/ folder and install composer:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Then install the dependencies by executing:

$ php composer.phar install

Step 5: Setup the database

The AMP-packages listed above all include Phpmyadmin. The following three steps need to be completed in order to setup the database

Create the database
1. Databases -> Create Database
2. Type hackaccounts as name and select utf8_general_ci as Collation. (Dont judge the name)
Create a user
1. Once you've created the database it will be visible in the left column – open it by clicking it.
2. Privileges -> Add user
3. Fill in username and password. Leave the other fields as defaults.
Import the database schema
1. Import->File to Import->Choose file
2. Open step_up/Dump20140209.sql
3. Press Go

Step 6: Setup StepUp

Open step_up/API/lib/db.setup.php Add the database username and password from Step 5 to db_link. Save the file as step_up/API/lib/db.php

db_link

Step 7: Install Bower Dependencies

Navigate to the /public_site folder

# Install global dependencies.  Depending on your user account you may need to
# gain elevated privileges using something like `sudo`.
npm install -g grunt-cli bower

# Optionally install coveralls (integration is baked in with Travis CI).
npm install -g coveralls

# Install NPM dependencies.
npm install

# Install Bower dependencies.
bower install

Step 8: Done!

Open StepUp App by navigating to the path step_up/public_site in your local host. Log in using the default user admin@admin.com and password admin123

jel-massih / step_up