Miscellany

Miscellany is a collaborative world building and campaign management tool tailored for tabletop RPG players and game masters.

Installation

After cloning the project, create the following files.

• .env
  • cp .env.example .env
  • You'll need to fill it out to your needs.
• public/.htaccess
  • If on Apache.

Execute the following commands:

php artisan key:generate
php artisan storage:link
php artisan voyager:install
php artisan migrate

That should cover you. You can now create an account. If you have errors on the dashboard, check that your roles table has entries, and that your user has a valid role_id value.

Using Docker

follow the step given above for creating the .env file, then modify it by deleting the following:

DB_HOST=mysql

Now add the following lines to your .env file:

# Docker
DOCKER_WEB_PORT=8000
DOCKER_MYSQL_PORT=3306

Start he containers by issuing the following command:

> docker-compose up -d --build

Note that the output stops before the web container is finished with everything that it needs to do so it may appear that everything is ready before you'll get a response from localhost in your browser. You can check the logs to see the status of the scripts that are run once the container is up.

docker-container logs -t

Concepts

The app revolves around the concept of Entities. This are for example:

• Characters
• Items
• Locations

Structure

Each entity is split between two tables:

• The entity table which contains some generic information available to all entities (name, id)
• A table for the specific data of the entity.

Sub content

Most entities can have n-to-n relations to other entities.

For example, there are Relations that link two entities together, as well as Attributes which contains n-to-1 custom data of an entity.

Assets

Assets can be compiled by following the Laravel Documentation

You'll need to install the various npm packages first.

npm install

The following will produce assets for development

npm run dev

The following will produce assets for production

npm run prod

Development

The following rules apply when developing the application.

Issues

All improvement, feature or bug must be related to a ticket on github. Each commit must contain on the first row the name and ticket id of the issue related to the change.

Standards

Code must follow PSR-4 recommendations.

Migrations

All migrations should have a working down() function. Exceptions are allowed for migrations that alter lots of content.

GIT

Development should be done in the develop branch, with substaintial new features done in a separate branch.

Tagging is only done on the master branch.

Production

Once a feature is ready and tested, the admin will merge it into the master branch. There is no auto-deploy to the servers.

Translations

To work on translations, execute the following command to clean you translations and re-import them.

php artisan translations:reset
php artisan translations:import

In the database, change your user's is_translator to true._Navigate to /translations to start working on your translations. Add your new language to app/config/laravel-translation-manager.php if needed.

When you are finished, export your changes.

php artisan translations:export *