E-Newsletter Platform for Educational Institutions

UNL_ENews is a micro-news management platform for funneling news and building electronic newsletters.

Users from the community submit news stories into a "Newsroom" where administrators build an electronic newsletter, which can be distributed through email.

News Stories can include:

• Quick summary (required)
• Full text
• Photos
• Web link

Use scripts within the scripts directory to create new newsrooms

Local Installation

1. Use php 7.4.

2. Create a fork and clone the unl_enews GitHub repository (unl/unl_enews).

3. Create your database schema.

4. Create www/config.inc.php and www/.htaccess files by copying data from www/config.sample.php and www/sample.htaccess. Update:

   • UNL_ENews_Controller::setAdmins
   • UNL_ENews_Controller::setDbSettings
   • UNL_ENews_Controller::$url - vhost servername or host/domain
   • $theme - 'UNL'
   • RewriteBase /workspace/UNL_ENews/www/ - RewriteBase / or however you have your workspace structured

5. Run upgrade.php script.

6. Add or create a symlink to the WDN templates repository (unl/wdntemplates).

7. Run composer install in your project root directory.

Last Updated: March 29, 2024