Symposium

A web app for conference speakers to track talks, bios, and conferences. Free, available online at Symposiumapp.com.

A fun side project by some lovely folks at Tighten Co..

Additional resources

• Api documentation
• Chat about it on freenode IRC channel #symposium

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.5.9
• A supported relational database and corresponding PHP extension
• Composer
• NPM
• Google Places API Key for speakers to set their location. A configuration guide can be found here.
• Algolia Account

Installation

1. (Optionally) Fork this repository
2. Clone the repository locally
3. Install dependencies with composer install
4. Copy .env.example to .env and modify its contents to reflect your local environment.
5. Place your Algolia keys in the .env file. This is also required for running PHPUnit tests.

ALGOLIA_APP_ID=your-app-id-key
ALGOLIA_SECRET=your-secret-key

6. Generate an application key

php artisan key:generate

7. Run database migrations. If you want to include seed data, add a --seed flag.

php artisan migrate --env=local

8. (Optionally) Enable the API. This will output two client ID/secrets that you can use for testing

php artisan passport:install

9. Install frontend dependencies with npm install
10. Build CSS with npm run dev
11. Configure a web server, such as the built-in PHP web server, to use the public directory as the document root.

php -S localhost:8080 -t public

12. Run tests with composer test.

Upgrading

composer update tighten/symposium

Testing

php artisan test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Matt Stauffer
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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