Welcome to the groot project. A project wich was developed for the "Web Programming" Module at the BFH-Bern.

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It is aussumed that the project is used on a xampp installation. Please notice you can provide different values for the user, password, db and installation-folder but you have to change the config.php file in order to do that.

1. Create folder groot in htdocs of apache
2. Clone the project or download the zip of Groot from Github

• Move the content of groot/trunk/src to the newly created groot folder of the htdocs directory

3. Create db with name groot -> utf8_unicode_ci on your MySQL-Server
4. Create user for the db groot

• User: groot,
• Password: groot

5. Install ZEND Framework via PEAR for Wikipedia REST client

• Install

When running the application an error might occure with the TemplateEngine. If this occures please set the rights of the tmp folder inside theme/templates/ to 0755 Basically the user executing the php-application has to have read and write rights inside this folder.

Following users are created by the testdata.php File. And can be used for the login inside the Website. User, PWD:

• tony, 12345
• hulk, 12345
• thor, 12345
• max, 12345 (admin)

• Following Elements do only have a stylistic purpose without any functionality:
  • The Whishlist in the left menu
  • The Hotlist in the left menu
  • The Links in the footer

This list is based on the introduction presentation. The paths show which files show the fulfilling of the requirements the best. After the file path there might be a ":methodName()" which specifies the exact method.

• a Web frontend with a mixture of static and dynamic content
  • Navigation Menu:
    • viewlets/viewlet.navi.php -> Main menu
  • Multi-page Setup:
    • classes/class.controller.php -> Controller for loading different views (Pages)
  • language selection
    • viewlets/viewlet.header.php -> Language selection
  • product catalogue
    • view/view.home.php -> List of the Products
    • view/view.genre.php -> Genre divided-Lists
    • view/view.search.php -> Search Page (accessed view header)
  • user accounts
    • viewlet/viewlet.header.php -> Login-Form in Header
  • shopping cart
    • views/view.shoppingcart.php -> Page "shopping cart"
    • classes/class.shoppingcart.php -> Shopping cart object
  • administrator view
    • Login with user max (pwd: 12345)
    • view/view.administration.php
• using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Web forms and form validation (incl. regular expressions)
    • view/view.administration.php
    • theme/js/
    • core.js
  • cookies and sessions
    • classes/class.shoppingcart.php:displayCart() -> cookies
    • classes/class.userhandler.php -> user-session
    • classes/class.i18n.php -> session, language-value
• a backend for
  • generating HTML on demand
    • classes/class.templaterenderer.php:extendedRender() -> Rendering Engine vor dynamic content
    • theme/templates -> Template folder for Renderer
    • views/view.search.php:render() -> Call of rendering
  • storing content in files and a database
    • classes/class.templaterenderer.php:_templateInclude() -> saves and reads temporary php-file
    • theme/templates/tmp -> folder in which the renderer saves the temporary files
    • classes/class.db.php -> database class which provides the first layer to the mysql-db
    • classes/clase.basemodel.php -> BaseModel for easy read and write to the database
    • classes/models/class.book.php -> Example Child class of BaseModel defines the data-types and columns of the book table
  • managing sessions
    • classes/class.userhandler.php -> handling user login and user logout
    • viewlets/viewlet.header.php -> data from user, passed to class.userhander.php
  • calling external Web services
    • classes/class.utilities.php:wiki() -> method for calling the wikipedia rest client
  • sending mails
    • views/view.payment.php -> mail($email_adress, $email_title, $email_message); prepare mail content and send it