Rainmaker

A feedback loop (FBL) processor for Interspire Email Marketer, written in PHP.

This project is a port of a Python feedback loop processor by Vimmaniac PLC.

This project was originally funded by Lead Wrench, LLC

Latest release: v0.1.1.

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• Composer

Installation

There's two main ways to use Rainmaker -- you can run it as a stand-alone binary; or it can be integrated into another project.

Stand-alone Usage

This method should be the easiest way to get up and running.

1. Download the source code from GitHub:

    git clone https://github.com/bradfeehan/rainmaker.git
    cd rainmaker
   

2. Install dependencies with Composer:

    curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    php composer.phar install
   

3. Create a configuration file:

    cp config/config.sample.yml config/config.yml
    vim config/config.yml
   

4. Start the daemon using the command-line interface:

    bin/rainmaker daemon:start config/config.yml
   

Basic help on the command-line interface is available by running bin/rainmaker help.

Integration into an application

The functionality of Rainmaker can also be integrated into another piece of PHP software, using Composer.

1. Add Rainmaker as a dependency in your project's composer.json:

    {
        "name": "acme/my_project",
        "repositories": [
            {
                "type": "vcs",
                "url": "https://github.com/bradfeehan/rainmaker"
            }
        ],
        "require": {
            "bradfeehan/rainmaker": "~0.1.1"
        }
    }
   

2. Update Composer dependencies:

    composer update bradfeehan/rainmaker
   

3. Include Composer's autoloader in your application's bootstrap process:

    require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
   

Now you should be able to access Rainmaker's PHP classes from inside your application, and Composer will handle autoloading them.

Configuration

Rainmaker is configured using a YAML configuration file.

The configuration file to use can be specified on the command-line when starting the daemon:

bin/rainmaker daemon:start /path/to/config.yml

Here's a comprehensive example of a Rainmaker configuration file:

mailboxes:
  - name: test@example.com
    protocol: imap
    host: imap.example.com
    port: 993
    ssl: SSL
    user: test@example.com
    password: secret
logger:
  class: Monolog\Logger
  configuration:
    class: BradFeehan\Rainmaker\Logging\MonologConfigurer

mailboxes

A mailbox represents a place that Rainmaker will check for feedback reports (an individual e-mail account).

Each item in the mailboxes array defines a mailbox. The configuration file must define at least one mailbox. Each mailbox has the following configuration parameters:

• name: A friendly name for this account (used in logs)
• protocol: The protocol to use to access this mailbox (one of pop for POP3, or imap for IMAP accounts)
• host: The hostname of the mail server to connect to
• port: The port of the mail server to connect to
• ssl: Determines whether SSL or TLS is used (one of false, "SSL", or "TLS")
• user: The user name to authenticate to the mail server with
• password: The password to authenticate to the mail server with

logger

The logging in Rainmaker can be customised in the configuration file.

The value of class is a string that names the class to instantiate for the main logger object used in Rainmaker. This is optional, the default value is Monolog\Logger.

The class under configuration specifies a ConfigurerInterface to instantiate which handles creation and configuration of the logger. This is also optional and defaults to BradFeehan\Rainmaker\Logging\MonologConfigurer.

In future, additional logging parameters may become configurable, including the logging level.

Running Tests

To run the tests, first clone the project and install development dependencies using Composer:

composer install --dev

Then you can run PHPUnit directly from within the project:

cd rainmaker
vendor/bin/phpunit

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Lead Wrench, LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.