Talks is a web application project to manage talks sessions. Originally developed as an internal competition for Parrot S.A. by Alvaro Moran, copyright 2014, it was later dropped, the company preferred a different solution.
I still think this one is a cleaner solution, so I decided to share it anyway. This web application is based on Laravel, a php framework to develop MVC web applications. It uses Twitter Bootstrap for the UI and few other projects for the interface.
- List of available talks as main page
- Users management (creation, edit) with different rights levels
- Talks management (creation, edit, deletion), with attachments
- Users can subscribe to an event
- Managers can approve/refuse a user to attend to a talk
- Developed with simplicity in mind
You need to install composer in order to bring up the application. To do so just type:
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
This will install the composer package manager. Go on installing the talks packages:
./composer.phar install
These Setup comments were written with Debian in mind.
Beware of setting the correct permisisons. For example, if Talks resides in a directory called talks:
chown -R root:www-data talks
cd talks
chmod -R gu+w app/storage
Apache should be configured in order to point to the public folder. For example, your /etc/apache2/sites-available/talks could look like this one:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/talks/public
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Another issue could be the apache rewrite module. On Debian, you could run:
a2enmod rewrite
service apache2 restart
Finally, you should configure your app/config/app.php.
For database configuration edit app/config/database.php with the database information needed.
To bing up a database you should do:
php artisan migrate:install
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
This will setup Sessions' tables and an administrator user called admin with password set to "password" and few more test data.
GRR is a room reservation system quite popular in France.
In order to activate GRR integration, set use_grr to true in your application configuration (app/config/app.php) and set up the GRR connection settings in the same file.
The integration assumes that GRR has a Talk area type (it could seed it) and the Room have all different names.
Creating, modifying and deleting talks will make the relevant changes to the GRR database.
Do not edit the reservation if you want Talks to be able to recognise the talks related entries.
Talks supports the following languages: English, French.
If you want to change language you can set it in the app/config/app.php file. If you want to modify any text, just check the app/lang directory.