Documentation

This application is a self-hosted comic books calendar, which allows you to follow the new issues of your favorite series.

Requirements

To run this application, you need:

• PHP 5.1 or greater with support of PDO
• MySql drivers for PDO
• the Mod_Rewrite module for Apache

Installation

Download the project

See the download page.

Configuration

1. Create a file application/config/comicvine.php with 1 constant (you’ll need to ask for an API key from ComicVine):

    <?php
    define('COMIC_VINE_API_KEY', 'you_comicvine_api_key');
   

2. Create a file application/config/recaptcha.php with 2 constants (you’ll need to ask for a key from ReCaptcha):

    <?php
    define('RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY', 'your_recaptcha_public_key');
    define('RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY', 'your_recaptcha_private_key');
   

3. Create a file application/config/cookies.php with 1 constant (any random string that’ll allow you to salt the cookies information):

    <?php
    define('SESSION_SALT', 'your_session_salt');
   

4. Edit the file application/build/conf/comicslist-conf.php and set the correct DSN, username and password for the DB connection.

5. Edit application/config/config.php and set the constants BASE_URL and DOMAIN according to your settings.

6. Create a Cron task calling cron-updater.php every day.

7. Go to your BASE_URL and enjoy!