Mark-a-Spot Readme File

Copyright © 2010, 2011 Holger Kreis
http://www.mark-a-spot.org

A map-based platform to display, categorize, rate and comment places in an urban environment

License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt GNU Affero General Public License
Version 1.6

Installation Instructions for development environment

- Copy and replace the app directory in a fresh CakePHP-Installation.
- Create a database (utf8_unicode_ci)

Web based installer

• go to http://site.com/ within your browser and follow the instructions.

Manual installation

• Extract the archive. Upload the content to your server.
• Create a new MySQL database (‘utf8_unicode_ci’ collation)
  • app/config/sql/mas.sql
  • app/config/schema/mas_data.sql
• Rename:
  • app/config/database.php.install to database.php, and edit the details.
• Delete app/config/setup
• You can access your admin panel at http://your-site.com/ and log in
  as
  • username: sysadmin@markaspot.org
  • password: test123

Configure the database

- Change Password in /(subdirectory)/users
- Deactivate scaffolding in app/controllers/users_controller.php
- go to YOUR_SITE/admin/configurator/configurations_ in your browser and change keys and values

Thank you:

Help

- Nina Schröter, Michael Schneidt, Domingos de Oliveira (Aktion Mensch)

Code

Mark-a-Spot makes heavy use of other software, snippets, packages like:

- AJAX Starrating Plugin by Michael Schneidt (schneimi)
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/ajax-star-rating-plugin-1

- search-plugin by Github/kalt
http://github.com/kalt/search

- MathCaptcha component by Jamie Nay
http://jamienay.com/code/math-captcha-component

- Media-Plugin/David Persson
http://github.com/davidpersson/media

- JQuery Validation Plugin by Matt Curry
http://github.com/mcurry/js_validate/

- The Tutorial Code of Peter Butler
http://www.studiocanaria.com/articles/cakephp_auth_component_users_groups_permissions_revisited

- Datasource for Twitter by Michael “MiDri” Riddle

- Oauth Component by Daniel Hofstetter (http://cakebaker.42dh.com)

- Bitly Component by Utoxin
http://www.utoxin.name/2010/04/twitter-and-bitly-components/

- REST Api Plugin by Kevin von Zonneveld
http://github.com/kvz/cakephp-rest-plugin

- Excel Export Tutorial:
http://www.dnamique.com/cakephp-export-data-to-excel-the-easy-way/

- CakePHP-Plugin Configurator by Marko Markovic
https://github.com/markomarkovic/cakephp-plugin-configurator

- Install-Plugin (as part of Croogo)by Fahad Ibnay Heylaal
https://github.com/croogo/croogo licensed under The MIT License

- and lots of knowledge shared in
the Google Maps Discussion Group
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API

Icons for use with OSM/Cloudmade API

Icons in /img/icons/cartosoft/ do not apply to the GNU Affero license.
Please read the mapicon Factory License in that directory.