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Mark-a-Spot Readme File

Copyright © 2010 Holger Kreis
http://www.mark-a-spot.org

A map-based platform to display, categorize, rate and comment places in an urban environment

@copyright 2010 Holger Kreis <holger[at]markaspot.org>
@license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt GNU Affero General Public License
@link http://mark-a-spot.org/
@version 0.98

Installation Instructions for development environment

- Copy the directory or it’s content into the documentroot of your webserver
- Create a database and import the dump to be found at app/config/sql/mas.sql/

Configure files

- Open app/config/database.php.default and create db-connect. Rename the file.
- Open mark-a-spot.php and change default values.
- Open /webroot/js/markers.js and change default values
of conf.object (Town, Subdirectory, Default Latlon)
- Open /webroot/js/common.js and change default values of confCommon.object (Labels, Subdirectory)

Configure the database

- Login with [email protected]:test123 for Sysadmin’s access
- Change Password in /(subdirectory)/users
- Deactivate scaffolding in app/controllers/users_controller.php

Thank you:

Help

- Nina Schröter, Michael Schneidt, Domingos de Oliveira (Aktion Mensch)

Code

Mark-a-Spot makes heavy use of other software, snippets, packages like:

- AJAX Starrating Plugin by Michael Schneidt (schneimi)
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/ajax-star-rating-plugin-1

- search-plugin by Github/kalt
http://github.com/kalt/search

- Media-Plugin/David Persson
http://github.com/davidpersson/media

- JQuery Validation Plugin by Matt Curry
http://github.com/mcurry/js_validate/

- The Tuturial Code of Peter Butler
http://www.studiocanaria.com/articles/cakephp_auth_component_users_groups_permissions_revisited

- …

- and lots of knowledge shared in
the Google Maps Discussion Group
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API