Ushahidi is an open source web application for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping. It helps collect data from many sources, including: email, SMS text messaging, Twitter streams, and RSS feeds. The platform offers tools to help process that information, categorize it, geo-locate it and publish it on a map.
Ushahidi 3.x is the next iteration of this tool, rebuilt from the ground up. Not only the code but the way in which we think about users interacting with mobile and social data. Crowdsourcing strategies have come a long way in the five years Ushahidi has been around and we've been fortunate enough to learn a lot from our global community.
We don't recommend it right now. The platform is not complete and there lots of bugs.
We would love your help, but the platform is in heavy development with a rapid rate of change. If you're keen to help build something awesome, and happy to get deep into the core workings... then yes! Read about getting involved page. Most of our active development happens on the Ushahidi Phabricator. If you haven't used Phabricator before, read Phab Help after you sign up.
If you just want to fix a few bugs, or build a prototype on Ushahidi, you're probably better helping out on Ushahidi 2.x right now.
The default install creates a user demo with password testing. This user has
admin privileges. Once logged in this user can create further user accounts or
give others admin permissions too.
Base config files are in application/config/. You can add per-environment config
overrides in application/config/environments/. The environment is switched based
on the KOHANA_ENV environment variable.
Routes are configured in application/routes/default.php. Additional routes can
be added in per-environment routing files ie. application/routes/development.php.
We've included a Vagrantfile and puppet manifests to help build a quick development box.
Install Vagrant, then run vagrant up to get started!
Unit and functional tests are run automatically by Travis-CI. See .travis.yml for config details.
See the 3.x Testing page.
We use PHPUnit for unit tests, and Behat and Mink for functional testing. You can install the Behat, Mink, PHPUnit and other required packages using Composer. Just run:
composer installBehat and PHPUnit will be installed to bin/ at the root of the repository.
Run the tests with:
bin/behat --config application/tests/behat.yml --format progress
bin/phpunit -c application/tests/phpunit.xmlCreate your feature file in application/tests/features/, eg foo.bar.feature.
You can run a single test with:
bin/behat --config application/tests/behat.yml application/tests/features/foo.bar.feature --format progressCreate your test file in application/tests/classes/Acme/, eg FooBarTest.php.
You can run a single test with:
bin/phpunit -c application/tests/phpunit.xml application/tests/classes/Acme/FooBarTest.php