Tabbie

Tabbie is a web based tabbing system for British Parliamentary style debating tournaments of varying sizes. This version of tabbie is one of a number based on the last publicly available code on Sourceforge and is maintained by Tom Lake, based at Swansea University.

Requirements

• PHP 5+ - currently tested on 5.4 and 5.6
• MySQL 5+ (or a compatible fork) - currently tested on MariaDB and MySQL 5.5
• ADODB - a PHP database library
• A web server compatible with PHP

This version of tabbie is generally tested against PHP 5.4 and 5.6, MySQL and MariaDB 5.5 on web servers running Apache 2.2 and Apache 2.4

Installation

• Copy tabbie to a location available to your web server
• Ensure that the web server is able to write to the config/ directory
• Create a blank database and a new database user
• Open tabbie in your web browser and provide the information requested by the install script

Note: This version of Tabbie does not currently perform any authentication. If you are placing tabbie on a publically accessible server, ensure that access is restricted. Otherwise any debater, judge or member of the public who learns the address can modify the tab at will.

Versions

The master branch of the GitHub repository contains the latest code. Older, tested versions are available by checking out the appropriate tag or from the Releases page on GitHub. These versions are dated, and are typically tagged based on the competition they were tested at and will include any patches applied during that tournament.

The last public release and latest code taken from SourceForge are also available, tagged "v1.5" and "trunk".

Demo

A demonstration version is available here To access the demo, use the username 'demo' and password 'tabbi3demo!'.

License

Tabbie is released under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License. See the LICENSE file for further details.

This version also includes code from other projects:

• PHPPowerPoint (LGPL v2.1)
• FPDF (Freeware - "You may use, modify and redistribute this software as you wish")
• tFPDF (LGPL) and DejaVu fonts
• jQuery, jQuery UI and various jQuery plugins/libraries (See files for details)
• Bootstrap and Simplex theme from bootswatch.com (Both MIT Licensed)

Contributors

This version of Tabbie includes code and concepts from:

• Thomas Lake
• Richard Coates (who also maintains his own version of Tabbie)
• Tito Sarrionandia

The contributors listed on SourceForge or in the version history for this project are:

• Klaas van Schelven
• Deepak Jois
• Ben Walker
• Giles Robertson
• Meir Maor
• Joshua Lo

Apologies if anyone has been missed!