A web application for research profiles, providing user-editable information and web pages to aesthetically promote and highlight researcher activities and achievements.
- User ability to create, read, update, and delete profiles
- General and tags search on profile data
- Delegation to other users to maintain profile information
- Student engagement
- Learn about researchers/labs based on interest
- Connect and facilitate placement in labs and research opportunities
- Export profiles to PDF
- PHP 8.0
- MySQL 5.7
- Apache 2.4 / Nginx
- Composer
- Memory caching: Redis / PHP-redis extension
- PDF exports: Node 16 / NPM 8 / Chromium
git clone [email protected]:utdallasresearch/profiles.git
composer install --ignore-platform-reqs
cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env file for your environment.
php artisan key:generate
php artisan storage:link
php artisan migrate --seed
First user to login will have the administrator role, which can then be granted to other users.
- Enable profile PDF exports (on a server)
- Install Node & NPM
- Install Puppeteer:
sudo npm install puppeteer --location=global - Install Chromium CLI:
- install it with a package manager, OR
- install it with Puppeteer, then copy it to an accessible location (replace the paths below with your global node_modules path):
node /usr/lib/node_modules/puppeteer/install.jssudo cp -R ~/.cache/puppeteer/chrome /usr/lib/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromiumsudo chmod -R go+rx /usr/lib/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium
- Edit the .env file to set
ENABLE_PDF=true, uncomment and edit the paths to your Node, NPM, node_modules, and chromium CLI path
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
