koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections

[jdaviescoates]

@thetomester13 said in koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections:

Symfony based applications that could help point me in the right direction?

Not Symfony, but Castopod is built with CodeIgniter which afaiu is a similar kettle of fish (a PHP framework)

[girish]

@thetomester13 from https://symfony.com/projects, it seems mautic, grav, wallabag are some examples.

[thetomester13]

@girish that's exactly what I needed to be able to get Koillection up and running! Thanks so much. The problem at the end was also getting a write-friendly directory for user sessions for Symfony, by symlinking /run/php/session into /app/data. I pushed up the latest which is a working application to the repo here.

@girish is there interest in making this an official app? If so I can work on making tests for this (no guarantee of timeline though). The other question is how strict the precedence is for auto-creating users on app installation? Currently on install the user needs to go in and create the first user. If a user is a pre-req for an installable app then I'd need to find a way to bake an admin user in.

[jdaviescoates]

@thetomester13 said in koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections:

Currently on install the user needs to go in and create the first user.

I'm pretty sure there are existing apps like that

[timconsidine]

@thetomester13 don’t fret about it, different apps take different approaches, not really right or wrong one, do what is best/easiest for you, just make sure it is clearly instructed what user should do on installation

[thetomester13]

Appreciate the input!

I just pushed up some changes to make the app a bit more official: image, markdown files, etc. It should be ready for people to use if they'd like! I've been able to create a Collection, leverage Templates for additional fields, and use the API pretty seamlessly.

Again, the repo is here.

@girish @nebulon if we want to make this app official let me know and I can start working towards making some tests for it.

[girish]

@thetomester13 sure, if it's useful, why not. I have forked it at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/koillection-app and you should have access.

[girish]

@thetomester13 Quickly built it and installs fine. File upload doesn't seem to work.

[thetomester13]

@girish good find! I just pushed up a fix that should fix file uploads. I'll comment again when I have some tests ready!

[timconsidine]

Koillection would be a great addition to Cloudron.
I tried it on separate VPS in docker-compose but reluctant to start adding data there if it comes to Cloudron soon.
I hate migrating data