Kurogo Mobile Web

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
• Photos
• Athletics
• Social
• Emergency
• Links
• Statistics
• About
• HTML Content
• Administration Console

Online Guide

We strongly recommend developers read the developer's guide:

• HTML

Please contact kurogo@modolabs.com for more information.

Quick Setup and Requirements

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 (5.3 recommended) or higher with the following extensions
  • zlib, xml, dom, json, pdo, mbstring, LDAP, curl

To install, simply copy the files to your webserver, and set the document root to the www folder. For more detailed setup information, please see the Developer's guide on kurogo.org/docs

Version 1.5 RC1

• Version 1.5 is released under the Lesser GNU Public License v2.1
• NEW MODULE : Social. Show feeds from facebook and Twitter
• Data can be fetched in the background improving performance
• New XML Parser (SimpleXMLDataParser) makes it easier to parse simple XML documents
• Add Shibboleth authentication authority (requires a shibboleth SP installed on the Kurogo Server)
• Many other improvements and fixes

History

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.