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AKSW / googledoc-viewer

Small and simple PHP Script using the googledoc REST api to display contents on our website.
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AKSW Google Document Viewer

The purpose of this application is to enable a view of the bachelor and master theses offered by the AKSW group at the University of Leipzig. These are to be managed and organized in a collaborative Google document folder. This tool uses the Google Drive REST API for PHP to nagivate inside this folder and JavsScript with JQuery to display the contents on our website.

dependencies

  1. PHP 5.2.1 or higher
  2. Google APIs Client Library for PHP (https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client)

deploy

  1. Run git clone, check dependencies and/or run composer install (resp. ./composer.phar install, http://getcomposer.org/)
  2. Register at the Google developer console (https://console.developers.Google.com/) and create a new project
  3. Enable and manage APIs ( resp. check "APIs & auth") and search for "Drive API" and enable it
  4. Go to "Credentials" (in the left menu) and generate a new ID, by selecting "Create credentials" and choosing "Service account key"
  5. In the next screen you can select which service account to use (App Engine, Compute Engine or a new Service Account)
  6. Generate a new .p12 key and keep it save
  7. Copy the /backend/serviceconfigs/googleDrive.ini.tpl file to /backend/serviceconfigs/googleDrive.ini. and fill in the given project credentials
  8. Copy the /backend/config.php.tpl file to /backend/config.php. and fill in the $searchTagsand $displayTags you want to use.
  9. Create a new folder in your Google drive and share it with the Google service account email address or add a folder to your drive which the Google service account can access

manual

further development