Install

1. Open a terminal and clone the repository on your local machine :

   git clone https://github.com/tig12/observe

   (or download a zip version of the code: github.com/tig12/observe/archive/refs/heads/main.zip)
2. Install php, sqlite3 and some php extensions.
   On debian-based systems :

   sudo apt install php8.5
   sudo apt install sqlite3
   sudo apt install php8.5-{yaml,sqlite3,bz2,zip,gd}
   

Directory structure

observe/
    ├── config              # Configurations of the studies
    ├── docs                # Current documentation
    ├── output              # HTML pages generated by the program -- NOT VERSIONED --
    ├── src                 # Source code
    ├── test                # Code to test the program
    ├── var                 # Intermediate files -- NOT VERSIONED --
    ├── vendor              # Auxiliary generic code
    ├── config.yml.dist     # Global configuration, for ephemeris computation
    ├── phpunit.xml         # For tests
    └── run-observe.php     # Main entry point of the program

• run-observe.php is the unique entry point to use the program.
• config/ contains the the commands that you need to edit.
• config.yml.dist needs to be copied (see below).

mkdir {output,var}

Configuration

cp config.yml.dist config.yml

Swiss ephemeris