Park Compass

Park Compass (http://parkcompass.com) lets users discover parks by location and park facility search. It makes use of Google Maps, MYSQL, PHP, SASS, GRUNT, JSON & jQuery. Parks data provided by the open data projects of the cities of Vancouver & North Vancouver.

Getting set up

Note: This was a student project - so it needs lots of love before it's truly "production ready" :) Also, just a heads up that these instructions may not be comprehensive. Let me know if you find anything missing.

#####Install the following on your local machine:

• Node & NPM
• Ruby (already installed on mac)
• SASS
• Compass

#####Clone repo

git clone git@github.com:tnt0932/ParkCompass.git

#####Set up mysql database

• current park database located at resources>parkcompass_*.sql

#####Set up config files

• rename db_config_demo.php to db_config.php and fill with local database info.
• copy db_config.php into dist folder and populate with production database info

#####Set up local variables

• rename project_vars_demo.php to project_vars.php and populate (enter bit.ly account info to enable link shortening)

#####Install project dependencies Navigate into the Park Compass repo folder and enter the following to install the package.json dependencies

sudo npm install

Set up virtual host

• Mac instructions

#####Run grunt watch task to compile sass on save

grunt

#####Run grunt dist task to package everything up into the dist folder

grunt dist