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velib-stats

Velib-stats is a project mainly written in PHP and JAVASCRIPT, based on the MIT license.

Playing with Silex to fetch stats about Velib (bike rental service) network in Paris.

Velib Stats

This application allows to display some statitics about velib bike rental system stations.

Install:

  1. Play with your command line:

    $ git clone git://github.com/marcw/velib-stats.git $ cd velib-stats $ git submodule update --init

  2. You will need to edit the web/.htaccess file and change the database settings.

  3. Import all the files present in sql/:in your database. There are no database user info in the dump, you must be the database owner to create the project's schema. The database needs the PlPgsql language. The objects will be stored in a vlib schema. If you have an existing schema vlib in your database you will need to edit the dump and re-generate model files.

    => \i /absolute/path/velib-stats/sql/schema.sql

  4. The project is ready to run!

How To

Import data

Importing data from Velib webservices to your databse is pretty easy. Everything is done by calling your application.

  1. In order to retrieve the station list, request with a GET method the following uri: http://your.host/update/list

  2. To update data for a particular station, request with a GET method the following uri: http://your.host/update/id. id should be replaced with correct id of station.

Clear the cache

Fire a console and type

$ cd path/to/the/project
$ rm -rf cache/*

Depending on your configuration, you might need to have superuser rights.

License

This application is licensed under the MIT license.