Mesamatrix

Mesamatrix is a PHP application that parses information from a text file in the Mesa Git repository (features.txt) and formats it in HTML.

Official website: https://mesamatrix.net/

Installation

Prerequisites

Mesamatrix requires the following software:

• Composer
• Git
• PHP 7.4 or higher, with these packages:
  • php-json
  • php-xml

Install steps

Clone the Mesamatrix repository:

git clone git@github.com:MightyCreak/mesamatrix.git

Jump into the directory and install the dependencies with Composer:

cd mesamatrix
composer install

Configuration (optional)

There is a default config file in config/config.default.php. It provides default values for the application, but is overridden by the optional config/config.php.

For instance, to change the log level: create a config/config.php file and copy this contents:

<?php

use Monolog\Logger as Log;

$CONFIG = array(
    "info" => array(
        "log_level" => Log::DEBUG,
    ),
);

Initial setup

For the initial setup, run the mesamatrixctl tool to clone the Mesa Git repository and generate the XML file:

./mesamatrixctl setup

Update Mesa information

Once setup is done, you can run the two commands that are needed to get the latest information from Mesa:

./mesamatrixctl fetch
./mesamatrixctl parse

These commands can be put into a crontab or similar scheduling facility, for automated operation of your Mesamatrix installation.

Set up the web server

For developers

As a developer, an easy way to spawn up a PHP server is by running this command:

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public

For deployment

In order to deploy Mesamatrix on a server, the web server root must point to the public directory. Be aware not to give access to more than just this directory.

At this point, you are done! Open your site in a web browser, and hopefully you will see the matrix of Mesa features!

CLI tool

The mesamatrixctl tool can be used to administer your Mesamatrix installation. It outputs very little by default, but can become more verbose when passed -v, -vv or -vvv for normal output, verbose output or debug output respectively.

Run ./mesamatrixctl list to see the available commands, or ./mesamatrixctl help for more detailed help.

License

Mesamatrix is available under the AGPLv3, a copy of which is available in the LICENSE file.

Third-party code libraries

• jQuery is available under the MIT License.
• jQuery Tipsy is available under the MIT License.
• PSR Log is available under the MIT License.
• Symfony is available under the MIT License.

Media files

The Mesamatrix banner image was created by Robin McCorkell, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Go tweak it, and send us your improvements!

The RSS feed icon is freely available from the Mozilla Foundation at http://www.feedicons.com/

The GitHub 'Fork me' ribbon is available under the MIT license.