Topic: Creating a web site to manage a Grad re-union

[Ken]

I offered to provide webspace on my SME server as a contact location for a Grad re-union coming up this summer.

We have a previous list of names, addresses and phone numbers from 10 years ago but not emails. I was thinking to create a form for people to send in their current information and email, perhaps including a picture and short write up.
This might be used to create an instant annual when done - either paper or CD.

We need to provide anticipated dates and activities and ideally people could vote on desired activies, meals, souvenirs.

Also I need to be able to email up to 250 people.


Before I go off on entirely the wrong tangent I thought I would ask for advice.

Would phprojekt be a good idea.

I just downloaded to 6.03 and installed using the http://www.marari.net/downloads/phprojekt/phprojekt-howto.htm

If not phprojekt what do you suggest?

Thanks, Ken

[Pinaki]

Check out PhpWebSite

"contribs.org" is run using "phpWebSite" - http://wiki.contribs.org/index.php?module=article&view=10&MMN_position=33:33

It is a little more polished than phpProjekt.

You have to do a little setup - as it is not a pure Sme Server module.

[Abe Loveless]

You might consider something like this:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alumni-online/

Works pretty well... it took a little tweaking, but not too much.  Has forums and notices upon login.  For my last reunion, I used this in combination with an Ezmlm list serve on my SME box.  Worked real well.

I wrote up a howto for installing here:
http://ww2.lovelesscentral.org/alumni-online/Alumni-Online_Installation.txt

It may have changed since then... not real sure.

[Ken]

I like the idea of Ezmlm list serve especially depends on how hard it will be to mail to the group in groupware projekt. It's something I never even thought of as being available for the server.

Regards alumni-online there isn't really a good explanation of what it does. Forums and notices upon login are covered with phprojekt. Did I overlook the detailed feature list somewhere?

Thanks, Ken

[Abe Loveless]

Well, it's a web-based app.. similar to the various content management systems.  Lets user's request a login, and assign themselves to a particular class (Class of XX)  An admin, or designated user can add news items, that kind of stuff.

Here's my sample site:
http://www.lovelesscentral.org/alumni/

Hope that helps.

[Ken]

I decided to try adding the Alumni online site as per your recommendation.

I installed it as best I could per your instructions but it does not let me log in

with UserName: system
Password: admin

I know I am missing something simple.

in II.4 you say to quit mysql - quit doesn't work, it needs a \q to quit

In your howto  section II.  5.  You mention to create the database tables and when I enter the command "mysql alumni < MySql-En.sql" I get

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on a line by itself and must do a control alt delete, reboot to get out
Perhaps I am missing something in your how to.

Thanks, Ken

[John Mackenzie]

Ken wrote:
> If not phprojekt what do you suggest?

Ken,
I set up a similar website with the following contribs from  http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi  :

1) Email list server - Ezmlm (very easy and useful)

2) Forum/bulletin board - phpBB (very easy and useful)

3) Alumni directory - ldap-abook (can be hard to configure)

4) Photo gallery - Gallery (mod easy and fantastic)

5) Calendar - WebCal (mod easy)

I also had a wiki set up (TWiki) and a news page (News Publisher), but these were less useful.

This sort of website becomes the communication centre for a re-union, and takes a lot of the work off the re-union secretary's shoulders.  

John Mac

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[ken]

Any chance I could see your site, especially the photo gallery idea.

I have started a configuration using config help from Abe at www.spgrad74.communityprinters.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have provision for photos - specifically then and now.

For actual management I have been looking at phproject - I had set up with the rpm from marari network solutions but ran into problems when I turned on timecards as evidently the database did not configure them.

However tomight I copied the updated phprojekt from phprojekt.org into the /opt/project directory and then ran the setyp.php

as in https://mydomain/project/setup.php it gave me an error and would not allow me to write the file config.inc.php so I made a copy of that file then gave the original read, write permissions
in /opt/project directory
chmod config.inc.php 777
then when I re-ran https://mydomain/project/setup.php it made me enter the password I forget now if its the system Root password or the projekt pasword. Then one had a choice to start new or update current phprojekt. I chose to update and it made the required adjustments so things almost all work properly now.

Exception is if I try and download the member list I get an internet explorer error saying it can not be opened or found. I am not sure if this is a phprojekt error, or a internet explorer error.

I may have to start from scratch yet unless someone knows the difficulty.

[John Mackenzie]

> Any chance I could see your site, especially the photo
> gallery idea.

Just install Gallery on your esmith server as per howto:
http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/gallery-howto.html

Unfortunately the site itself has been down for a few months now,
but if I can quickly get it up again I'll let you know.

John Mac