cssgunc/porch-communities

PORCH Communities project managed by CS+SG at UNC Chapel Hill

Dev Setup:

1. Make sure Apache is running on your machine
2. Enable PHP in Apache
3. Set up MYSQL
4. Set up phpMyAdmin
5. Make a copy of .env-example and name it .env.
   • Edit the environment variables for your dev setup.
   • See the section on environment variables for more info.

Resource (Mac): https://machiine.com/2013/how-to-install-apache-and-php-on-a-mac-with-osx-10-8-mamp-part-1/

Resource (Windows): https://faq.programmerworld.net/web_publishing/apache_php.htm

Environment Variables

DATABASE_NAME: The name of the mysql server

DATABASE_USER: The login username for the mysql server

DATABASE_PASSWORD: The password for the mysql login

DATABASE_HOST: The host address of the mysql server (optional, defaults to localhost)

DATABASE_PORT: The port number of the mysql server (optional, defaults to 5432)

NODE_ENV: prod for production environment, dev for local / development.

You may add more environment variables if you would like. You can access them through process.env.ENV_VAR_NAME

porch-communities's Issues

Set up code using Sequelize so that dummy variables can be transferred from front-end to back-end and interact with database (API)

Add donations.js sql to db/models

Create database models