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.