Legacy AtariLegend source code

AtariLegend is a website for Atari ST enthusiasts and retro gamers in general.

This repository contains the source code for the legacy public site and control panel (aka CPANEL). The public site has been reimplemented in 2020, See the main repository. The control panel still runs on the code base of this repository.

Local installation

Follow the instructions below to setup your local environment. Alternatively, use the pre-configured Docker setup.

Prerequisites

• A web server with PHP, with the mysqli and gd extensions (Require PNG and JPEG support)
• MySQL, with the SQL mode only_full_group_by disabled (e.g. sql_mode='')
• NodeJS + NPM + Composer

Instructions

• Clone the project from GitHub
• Install the Composer dependencies: composer install -d public/php/
• Install the NPM dependencies: npm install
• Run Grunt to generate the CSS files: npm run grunt
• Point your web server document root to public/
• Obtain a dump of the database and import it into your MySQL server (See: https://www.atarilegend.com/data/database-dumps/)
• Obtain a copy of the images and import them in public/data/images (See same URL above)
• Create a PHP file containing the MySQL connection details in public/php/config/connection_settings.php:

<?php

$db_host = "YOUR_DB_HOSTNAME";
$db_username = "YOUR_DB_USER_NAME";
$db_password = "YOUR_DB_PASSWORD";
$db_databasename = "YOUR_DB_NAME";

• Create a PHP file containing the SMTP settings in public/php/config/email_settings.php:

<?php

$email_mailer = 'smtp';   // See PHPMailer for possible values
$smtp_username = '...';
$smtp_password = '...';
$smtp_port = 587;
$smtp_host = '...';
$smtp_auth = true;
$smtp_secure = 'ssl';

• Create a PHP file containing some constants including the URL of the main site in public/php/config/local_settings.php:

<?php

define("FRONT_URL", "http://localhost:8080");

Contributing

Use feature branches and open pull requests again the development branch. Once it's merged in development it will be automatically deployed on the development server. We do a release to production from time to time by merging the current development branch into master.