System Requirements

PHP ^7.3

Node ^v14.3

Installation

1. Clone or download the repository
2. Build the docker containers with docker-compose up

Installing Dependencies

All dependencies will be automatically installed on the installation step. However, if you need additional dependencies, install them in the laravel container. To Install additional php dependencies enter the Docker-Container named laravel navigate to mpmanager & run php ../composer.phar install XXX

Migrate the database

• Run docker exec -it laravel /bin/bash to jump into the laravel container
• navigate to mpmanager directory with cd mpmanager
• Run php artisan migrate --seed to initialize the Database. The --seed option will create the default user to login.
• The default user to login is admin@admin.com and basic-password.

phpMyAdmin

To project also includes phpMyAdmin which enables quick database operations without installing third-party software or writing any single line into the terminal.

The default credentials for the database are;

username : laravel
password: laravel

Please don't forget to change these before you publish your project

Building the Frontend

The project will automatically build the frontend in the production mode. If you want to build the project in development mode, change NMP_MODE variable in the .env file.

Essential Configurations

There are bound services like the Payment Services (Vodacom Tanzania and Airtel Tanzania), Ticketing Service(Trello API), Critical Logging notification(Slack Channel), WebSocket(Pusher), etc. if you plan to get your payments through these services you need to change/edit following files/configurations

Mobile Payment Configurations - Vodacom

1. ips array element in services.php. The file is located under app/config/. The element ips holds a list of authorized IP-addresses that are allowed to send transaction data.
2. Following changes should be done in the .env file

VODACOM_SPID=YOUR-SPID
VODACOM_SPPASSWORD="YOUR-PASSWORD"
VODACOM_REQUEST_URL="END-POINT WHERE YOU CONFIRM THE TRANSACTION"
VODACOM_BROKER_CRT="LOCATION-OF-.CRT-FILE"
VODACOM_SLL_KEY="LOCATION-OF-.KEY-FILE"
VODACOM_CERTIFICATE_AUTHORITY="LOCATION-OF-.CER-FILE"
VODACOM_SSL_CERT="LOCATION-OF-.PEM-FILE"

Mobile Payment Configurations - Airtel

When we set up the second payment provider in our live system, we were not that experienced by setting up VPN Tunnels that's why we go with the idea 'one tunnel per host`. Thatswhy the airtel payment integration is on a separate project for now. We're planning to migrate it into this project soon.

--> The project link comes as soon as we uploaded the project to GitHub <--

Change the api_user, api_password, and ips in services.php

  'airtel' => [
        'request_url' => env('AIRTEL_REQUEST_URL'),
        'api_user' => 'YOUR-USER',
        'api_password' => 'YOUR-PASSWORD',
        'ips' => [
            'ALLOWED_IPS TO SEND YOU TRANSACTION DATA'
        ],
    ],

The following change should be done in the .env file

AIRTEL_REQUEST_URL="AIRTEL SERVICE URL"

STS Meter Configuration

Currently, the system supports only CALIN-STS meters. To be able to communicate with Calin and generate STS-Tokens, the following changes should be done;

1. Your key and the endpoint where you create those tokens.

CALIN_KEY="CALIN-KEY"
CALIN_CLIENT_URL="CALIN-CLIENT-URL"

2. If you have meters which can send their consumption data to CALIN's server please fill the below-listed variables too

METER_DATA_URL="REMOTE-METER-READING-URL"
METER_DATA_KEY="METER-READING-KEY"
METER_DATA_USER="METER-READING-USER"

Pusher(Web Socket)

Pusher is used to notify your admins when a new ticket is been created.

PUSHER_APP_ID="PUSHER-APP-ID"
PUSHER_APP_KEY="PUSHER-KEY"
PUSHER_APP_SECRET="PUSHER-APP-SECRET"
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="YOUR-CLUSTER ex. eu"

Slack

Slack is the current critical logging service that alerts the admins when something went wrong. Like a transaction is been canceled.

LOG_SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL="SLACK-WEBHOOK-URL"

Installing Customer Registration App (Android)

Please read the project documentation to get an idea of why we're using a separate app to register customers via an Android-App. Follow the link to get to the Customer Register App Project

Setup Sms Communication

There are currently two supported SMS-Gateways.

1. Bongo Live Tanzania
2. Inhouse SMS-Gateway Application

Configuration for BongoLive

Important Note: The Bongo API integration on our system is not been maintained since early-2019.

Firstly, you have to uncomment these lines in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php. Because the default SMSProvider is the 2nd option above.

 //$this->app->singleton('SmsProvider', function ($app) {
        //   return new \App\Sms\Bongo();
        //});

After that, change the following configuration

 'bongo' => [
            'url' => 'http://www.bongolive.co.tz/api/sendSMS.php',
            'sender' => 'SENDER_NUMBER',
            'username' => 'USER NAME',
            'password' => 'PASSWORD',
            'key' =>'KEY',
        ],

Configuration for SMS-Gateway Application

Advice: Please read the SMS-Gateway documentation before you continue.

To lower the costs of the system we are using the following application to send and receive SMSes over that application. To be able to use the application you need to assign following configuration values in services.php

You are not forced to use our inhouse solution for SMS communication. You can change the SmsProvider easily in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

 $this->app->singleton('SmsProvider', static function ($app) {
            return new AndroidGateway();
        });

'sms' => [

        'android' => [
            'url' => 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send',
            'token' => 'FIREBASE_TOKEN',
            'key' => 'PHONE_KEY',
        ],
        'callback' => 'https://mpmanager.local/api/sms/%s/confirm',
    ],

Dont forget to change the callback variable to a globaly reachable domain

Change Predefined SMS Text

To change the predefined SMS texts, please edit app/Sms/SmsTypes.php

Weather Data

The system shows the weather data on the Mini-Grid level. To be able to read out the data from Open Weather Map service you have to register yourself there and get an API-KEY Change the following value in services.php

'weather' => [
        'owm_app_id' => 'api_key',
    ]

Email

To be able to send E-Mails please edit following configuration variables

return [
    'host' => '', //your host to send through
    'smtp_auth' => true, // enable SMTP authentication
    'username' => '',// SMTP username
    'password' => '', //SMTP username
    'smtp_secure' => PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS,// default is tls
    'port' => '',
    'default_sender' => '',
    'default_message' => 'Please do not reply to this email', // adds a small footer text to your email
];

Deploy for Production

The production mode will automatically install Let's Encrypt SSL certificates. Therefore you need firstly register a domain.

When you have your domain, the first thing to do is editing app.conf and db.conf(if you planning to use phpMyAdmin as well) files under NginxProxy/conf.p.

Afer that, paste chmod +x ./install-production.sh to make the file executable and run it via ./install-production.sh. This will guide you through the installation and finally, it will start the services.

Development

The development environment is served under http://mpmanager.local To reach the site over the given url; enter the following lines to your hosts file.

For Linux/Mac Users

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       mpmanager.local
127.0.0.1       db.mpmanager.local

For Windows

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
127.0.0.1       mpmanager.local
127.0.0.1       db.mpmanager.local

Generate API Documentation

To generate the API documentation, jump in the laravel container and type php artisan apidoc:generate in the mpmanager directory. That will create a new docs folder under public folder. The API documentation should be available under http://mpmanager.local/docs/. The whole API documentation will be migrated to third-party tools like Postman or Swagger.