About

Project Title: Ekklesia
Built By: Benjamin A. Ngafua
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Description: Church Management Software
Video Demo: Benjamin A. Ngafua's cs50x Final Project

What is Ekklesia?

• Ekklesia is a church management software that aids churches and similar in managing, automating and organizing daily operations.

• It allows church members to see God's hand through ministries

Functions?

1. It tracks and manages resources
2. It enhances communication
3. It monitors church growth
4. Currently use for administrator.

Technology used

• Framework:

  • Flask

• Templates :

  • Jinja2

• Frontend

  • Template from: TEMPLATEMO

• Backend Language:

  • Python

• Database

  • SQLite3

• Images use:

  • The images are from: PEXELS

Feature

Description	Status
Landing page	90%
Dashboard statistics	80%
Store users	80%
Create Members	80%
Communicate to members	Yet to be started
Track financial transaction	Yet to be started

Requirements

Install all the modules in requirements.txt file to get access to all the functionalities and packages running well

Manually install each module by running

pip3 install <module>

Automatically install all the modules by running

pip3 install -Ur requirements.txt

Virtual environments

Virtual environments are independent groups of Python libraries, one for each project. Python comes bundled with the venv module to create virtual environments and install packages for a project that do not affect other projects on your computer. Let's setup our venv

Create an environment

Create a the folder venv within this home directory:

macOS/Linux

$ python3 -m venv venv

Activate the environment

Before you work on this project, activate the corresponding environment:

macOS/Linux

. venv/bin/activate

Run the app

flask run

If you are new to flask, you might want to learn a bit about flask here to get you started

Directories and Files:

• churchAPP:

  • Comprises of all code that runs the application.

  • static:

    Contains the css, js, fonts and images files with important links that enhance the layout and the performances

  • templates

    Contains html file layouts and structure

  • init.py

    This makes the 'churchAPP directory' a python package Once churchAPP is imported the _init_.py runs automatically

  • modules.py

    This file heavily comprises of databases

  • views.py

    Main views, it controls all url endpoints for routing It also deals with functionality on the frontend data

• app.py

  • It tracks and manages resources

• Templates :

  This file will be run when starting the web server of this application

• requirements.txt

  This file comprises of all the packages that supports this application. The packages need to be install before getting started

• Procfile, Gemfile

  These files are used for the hosting of this app on Heroku

• church.db

  The database that stores all the queries info

• README.md

  Comprises of the application's detail