Development

ChurchCRM Development QuickStart

Credits and Thanks

The ChurchCRM team:

• Contributors

Other Open Source code used in this project:

This application uses Open Source components. You can find the source code of their open source projects along with license information below. We acknowledge and are grateful to these developers for their contributions to open source.

• View the list of PHP Open Source we use
• View the list of NPM Open Source we use

Must-Read Developer Pages"

• PHP Tips
• ORM Cheatsheet
• Code Functional Reference
• Git Cheetsheet

ChurchCRM is a fork of ChurchInfo, which is a fork from InfoCentral. Refer to the ChurchInfo and InfoCentral project sites for additional credits and history.

Development Methods

macOS

Mac Fresh Install - This was completed/tested on macOS Ventura.

Do the following in any order, as this will setup the development env

• Open the Mac App Store and download/install Xcode: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12

  • This takes a long time to download; start it first
  • Open Xcode accept agreement
  • Click Install
  • Close Xcode

• GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/

  • Login with a GitHub account
  • Clone ChurhCRM/CRM to a local dir

• Docker Desktop: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/

  • No Need to create an account

Get Dev Tools Ready

1. Install Homebrew https://brew.sh/
2. Install Node/NPM: ‘brew install node’
3. Install Composer: ‘brew install composer’

Build ChurchCRM from source; in the CRM source dir run.

1. npm install

   Note: if you are running Apple Silicon (M1/M2 processor) you will get errors with node-sass. For example:

   npm ERR! Binary has a problem: Error: dlopen(/path/to/ChurchCRM/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-arm64-120/binding.node, 0x0001):
            tried:
            '/path/to/ChurchCRM/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-arm64-120/binding.node' (not a mach-o file),
            '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/path/to/ChurchCRM/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-arm64-120/binding.node' (no such file),
            '/path/to/ChurchCRM/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/darwin-arm64-120/binding.node' (not a mach-o file)'
   

   If this happens, simply execute the following (fix courtesy of "m_kos" at Stack Overflow):

   npm install node-sass@npm:sass (requires npm >6.9)

2. npm run package

Start the application and test it locally

1. npm run docker-test-start
2. Open the browser and visit ‘http://localhost'/ and log in with admin/changeme

Make Code Change

• Download an IDE
  • PHP Storm is a great but paid - https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
  • VS Code is a free IDE: https://code.visualstudio.com/