Technique Finder

Technique Finder(TF) application aids researchers to find the techniques and facilities to fit their research project.

Use TF to identify and understand the microscopy and microanalyses techniques available to researchers through Microscopy Australia. You will find the contact details of expert staff for each technique. They can provide you with all the information you need, and guide you through the planning, training, data collection and interpretation stages of your experiments.

Licensing

• The Technique Finder application licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• It is built on top of the Code Igniter PHP framework which is licensed using the MIT license.

System requirements

Requirement	Version
PHP	5.6+
MySQL	5.7+

Developer Instructions

TF application was developed on a Mac OSX using PHP storm and Docker applications.

Development environment software requirements

PHP Storm	2019.1.3+
Docker	2.0.0.3 +

Steps to setup a developement environment for TF

1. Clone TF repository from Github
2. Set up a CLI interpreter using DockerFiles/docker-compose.yml and set Service to php
3. Add a new project configuration
   • Docker -> Docker-compose
   • Set appropriate Docker server
   • Set docker-compose file as DockerFiles/docker-compose.yml
   • Set services as php, web, db,
   • Tick —build, force build images (preferred)
4. On the OSX update /etc/hosts with 127.0.0.1 localhost web.local
5. Access the TF application on the web using the URL http://web.local:8080

Notes:

• Sample data will be loaded to the dev environment by a database dump
• DDL commands for the database can be found here: TechniqueFinder/db/ddl.sql
• Dev environment use TechniqueFinder/DockerFiles/dev-config.php, use TechniqueFinder/application/config/config.php for other environments.