LANager

LANager is a web application designed to make LAN Parties more enjoyable for attendees and organisers alike.

This repository is no longer being updated - the project has moved to zeropingheroes/lanager

Goals

currently these appear to be the most valuable goals, but this list is likely to evolve

For Attendees

• Make it easy to find out what's going on and join in
  • Games in progress with direct join links
  • Events & tournaments
  • Shouts
  • Files e.g. game mods and patches
• Enhance the social aspect of LAN parties
  • Attendee profiles with Steam add/message links
  • List of attendees with people's seating location etc
• Let attendees find out important venue/event information
  • Info pages easily editable for displaying things like where to sleep etc
• Give attendees a voice during the event
  • Request music & videos for playout on a big screen
  • Watch & listen to requested music & videos

For Organisers

• Make it easy to get information out to attendees via Info pages and Shouts
• Encourage socialising and participation
• Get instant feedback from attendees

Requirements

• Windows / Linux / OSX
• Web server (Apache, ngix and others)
• PHP 5.3.3+
• MySQL

WAMP, LAMP and MAMP are a quick way to satisfy the above, just check that the version you download includes PHP 5.3

Installation

This section is a work in progress

• Download and unzip
• Configure your server for Laravel 3
  • Make the "lanager/public/" directory your site's DocumentRoot - protecting other Laravel system and configuration files
  • Set the value of the key option in the config/application.php file to a random, 32 character string
  • Make the storage/ directory writable if you are on a Linux/Unix system (chmod 777 -R lanager/storage/)
  • Enable mod_rewrite in Apache
  • Enable .htaccess files in the "lanager/public/" directory for pretty URLs
  • Enable php_openssl in PHP
• Set up a database and a user
  • Using "lanager" for both is recommended
• Set up and run database migrations
  • Add the PHP binary to your system's PATH (Windows, Linux/Unix)
  • Open a command shell and type php -v to verify that the above step was successful
  • Change directory (cd) to the lanager directory
  • Run php artisan migrate:install to prepare the database
  • Run php artisan migrate to create the database structure
• Get an API key from Steam
  • Paste it into the api_key variable in lanager/bundles/steamprofile/config/config.php
• Browse to http://localhost/ and enjoy!

Feedback & Contributions

This repository is no longer being updated - the project has moved to zeropingheroes/lanager

Quickstart using Vagrant

Vagrant is a VM configuration tool. You can use it to very quickly retrieve, start, and automatically configure a VirtualBox VM for development or even production. This has been tested on OSX, but should work fine on any platform that Vagrant supports.

1. Install Vagrant and VirtualBox.
2. Within the lanager directory, in a terminal or command prompt, execute vagrant up. Vagrant will automatically download a VM image and configure it.
3. Follow the instructions that follow the configuration process to populate the database. This step is not performed automatically.
4. Ensure that you've added 127.0.0.1 lanager.dev to your hosts file. This is /etc/hosts on Unix-y platforms and C:\WINDOWS\system32\etc\drivers\hosts on Windows.
5. Visit http://lanager.dev:8080 in your browser and develop away!

You can SSH into the machine with vagrant ssh. The project files are in ~/lanager, which is symlinked to /vagrant. /vagrantcache is a convenient place to store any large files you don't want to lose between vagrant images. You can shutdown the VM with vagrant halt, or destroy it completely with vagrant destroy. Note that destroying it will remove any files on it that are not in the project directory or cache directory.