In the process of patching the web application, it may be useful to run it locally on your own computer. Below is a set of working instructions for deploying and running the web application on a Windows machine. It has been tested on a fresh install of Windows 10 on a VM. The setup will likely be similar with Mac OS X, but I don't have a ready made procedure for deploying on Mac.
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Download php7.0.x, the thread safe version, from http://windows.php.net/download#php-7.0
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Extract the downloaded archive to <your_php_directory>
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Open PowerShell, and type
setx path "%path%;<your_php_directory>"
Restart PowerShell.
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Download and install XAMPP to c:\xampp (or another directory without special permissions). Download XAMPP from here: https://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-files/7.2.2/xampp-win32-7.2.2-0-VC15-installer.exe
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Delete the contents of C:\xampp\htdocs
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Open XAMPP. Open Apache > Config > httpd.conf. Replace 'DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/apache/htdocs"' with 'DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/apache/htdocs/public"'. Replace '<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">' with '<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/public">'
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Download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
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Download this GitHub repository to c:\xampp\htdocs, so that all files are extracted directly to htdocs/
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Download and install Composer. Click next on everything. https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe
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In PowerShell, enter
cd "c:\xampp\htdocs\" composer install -
Open XAMPP. Start Apache and MySQL. Open MySQL -> Admin -> SQL. Copy and paste this into the text field and execute:
create database inventory; use inventory; [all the contents of sql.txt] -
Go to http://localhost:80 in your web browser and enjoy.
You may try using another web server software, but the Pokedex AS application is a bit picky with server software configuration. The $_GET variable needs to be populated with the URL string, so that when you enter http://localhost/thisIsAURLString, var_dump($_GET); must return array(1) { ["url"]=> string(16) "thisIsAURLString" }. XAMPP Apache behaves like this by default, so it's practical and easy to use.