roaddanger.org

A website and database for news reports about traffic crashes around the world.

Website: roaddanger.org

Requirements

• Webserver with PHP support. Required PHP modules: curl, intl
• MySQL/MariaDB with full text search support
• The Chromium headless browser to download article url's.

Installation

• Put all files on a webserver with PHP support.
• Import the database on a MySQL/MariaDB server with full-text search capability. The database creation script is located in. admin/createdatabase.sql
• Read the config.php file. It tells you to create a config_secret.php file with your database connection info. Never check this one into git.

<?php

// *** Do not fill in the database settings ***
// - Create a new file named config_secret.php and fill these settings there.
// - Exclude config_secret.php from checking into your source code repository. 
// - This is to prevent passwords from entering the source code repository.
const DB_HOST     = '';
const DB_NAME     = '';
const DB_USER     = '';
const DB_PASSWORD = '';

• Register yourself as a user on the website. Make yourself an administrator in MySQL by setting the permission for yourself field to 1 in the "users" table.

License

This software is made available under the MIT license.