roaddanger.org

A website and database for news reports about traffic crashes around the world.

Website: roaddanger.org

Requirements

• Webserver with PHP support. Required PHP modules: curl
• MySQL/MariaDB with full text search support
• A headless browser if you want to enable metadata download from more websites

Installation

• Put all files on a webserver with PHP support.
• Import de database on a MySQL/MariaDB server with full text search capability. The database creation script is located in admin/createdatabase.sql
• Read the config.php file. It tells you to create a configsecret.php file with your database connection info. Never check this one into git.

<?php

// *** Do not fill in the database settings ***
// - Create a new file named configsecret.php and fill these settings there.
// - Exclude configsecret.php from checking into your source code repository. 
// - This is to prevent passwords from entering the source code repository.
const DB_HOST     = '';
const DB_NAME     = '';
const DB_USER     = '';
const DB_PASSWORD = '';

• Register yourself as a user on the website. Make yourself an administrator in MySQL by setting the permission for yourself field to 1 in the users table.

License

This software is made available under the MIT license.