GitHub Push Hook Receiver

This script acts as a WebHook listener for GitHub's Webhooks. It is designed to keep track of a commit's push date from any repo's who has subscribed to this receiver. The typical use case is to find out when a student really pushed their commit to GitHub and use that date as the submission date, since the commit dates are easily forgeable.

Usage

On every single push with registered repository, the script will record two things to the database:

• a record of the GitHub payload to the events table
• a record of each commit in the push by their SHA, and the time that it was pushed, to the pushes table.

Then, there is a simple check.php script which acts as an API - given the params sha and github_user, it will return a JSON of recorded information.

Setup

To setup, make sure you have access to a database and a web server.

1. Modify init.sql and change the table names to be something appropriate (e.g., 20151_pushes), and run it, creating two tables in the database
2. Duplicate config.sample.php into config.php, and change the config variables accordingly. $secret is meant to be shared with and only with GitHub, and is used to verify that a request to the recording script does indeed come from GitHub.
3. Serve the page, and setup student repos with this hook. The mass population script in github_course_mgmt/org_mgmt takes care of this - make sure you change the config variable HOOK_URL accordingly, though.