Kurogo is a PHP framework for delivering high quality, data driven customizable content to a wide range of mobile devices. Its strengths lie in the customizable system that allows you to adapt content from a variety of sources and easily present that to mobile devices from feature phones, to early generation smart phones, to modern devices and tablets. It currently includes modules for:
- People directory
- News/RSS feeds
- Event Calendar
- Maps
- Video
- Emergency
- Links
- Statistics
- About
- HTML Content
- Administration Console
We strongly recommend developers read the developer's guide:
Please contact kurogo@modolabs.com for more information.
Kurogo is a PHP application. It is currently qualified for use with
- Apache 2.x
- mod_rewrite, and .htaccess support (AllowOverride)
- IIS 7.5
- URL Rewrite Module 2.0
- PHP 5.2 or higher with the following extensions
- zlib, xml, dom, json, pdo, mbstring, LDAP, curl
To install, simply copy the files to your webserver, and point your site's document root to the included www folder. For more detailed setup information, please see the developer's guide.
This version includes a number of fixes and improvements, including:
- The REST API has now reached 1.0 status.
- Kurogo is now localized. Version 1.3 only includes English values.
- Kurogo can now host multiple sites. The Multi-site option allows for multiple sites to be hosted on the same server.
- An updated logging facility has been created to include logging messages in Kurogo.
- The internal statistics engine and stats module has been overhauled.
- The Map module has been significantly updated. Support for directions, arbitrary addresses and UI improvements among other improvements.
- Many other bug fixes and improvements.
This project is based off the original MIT Mobile Framework and was adapted for use at Harvard University. If you have followed the progress of the Harvard project you will notice some improvements and differences:
- Newer modules including video and HTML content
- An overhauled configuration system with web-based administration interface
- A robust authentication system with support for many types of authentication authorities
- Authorization support to restrict access to content by user or group
- Many other small improvements to ease in customization
There are some parts of the project that are not present:
- Modules that have not been generalized are not included. Please refer to the Harvard Mobile Web Repository for modules that you do not find here. Some modules will eventually be generalized and folded into this project.