DMA Friends is an open source plugin for October CMS that encourages and recognizes visitor participation as an essential ingredient of the museum experience.
- Download and complete the installation for October CMS (http://octobercms.com)
- Install the Rainlab "User" Plugin
- Extract this repository into plugins/dma/friends
- In plugins/dma/friends folder run
composer install. - Then run:
php artisan october:up. - Go to the Friends Theme Repository for instructions on downloading and installing the companion theme.
Log into to the OctoberCMS backend (default http://HOSTNAME/backend) site. Click Settings. Select System / Updates from the left menu. Type rainlab.user and click Install Plugin on this page.
- Download the makefile in this repository installer/Makefile (e.g. curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artsmia/OctoberFriends/master/installer/Makefile)
- Uncomment and set the lines for your Github username and the OctoberCMS database details.
- Run
make installin your chosen install directory.
Developing custom activity types
PHP API Documentation is available at http://developer.dma.org/friends/
OctoberCMS Documentation is available at https://octobercms.com/docs/
If you are migrating from a wordpress/badgeos installation of friends you will also need to provide database configuration in order to migrate your data
- edit apps/config/database.php and add the following
'friends_wordpress' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '',
'database' => 'WORDPRESS_FRIENDS_DB',
'username' => 'WORDPRESS_USER',
'password' => 'WORDPRESS_PASS',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
),
Substituting the appropriate database, user, and password