Massive Platform

Welcome to Massive Platform, the 2017 Edition!

Welcome to Massive Platform, Travel Massive's open-source community and event platform.

What Is Massive Platform?

We developed Massive Platform to help our members connect more easily and to provide a centralized place for profiles and events. We outgrew all the usual tools such as Facebook pages and Meetup, and we wanted our own community platform, so we built one from scratch. We've made our platform open-source so that other communities can benefit from and build on our efforts and help make this product awesome.

Since our launch in January 2015, we've continued to develop the platform's features and have scaled the Travel Massive community to tens of thousands of members with thousands of events. The platform is developed and maintained by Ian who is the founder of Travel Massive. We would love more contributors!

Who uses Massive Platform?

Travel Massive (travelmassive.com)
A community for travel industry insiders.


Hardware Massive (hardwaremassive.com)
A community for makers and inventors.


Mappy Hour (mappyhour.org)
A community for outdoor adventurers.

Platform Screenshots

Key Features

Planned Features

Our Core focus is on developing features to support the needs of the Travel Massive community and our partner communities such as Hardware Massive and MappyHour. Below is a list of some of the features we plan on working on next.

How To Install Massive Platform

Installing the platform is reasonably straight forward if you you've got some Drupal experience. Here's a list of things you'll need:

1. A Web Server (nginx preferred)
2. A MySQL Database
3. PHP 5.5+
4. A long train ride

If you are developing with Ubuntu (our preference) you can get up and running easily by installing the following packages:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl php5-json php5-readline
sudo apt-get install drush
# for sending mail, your favorite MTA
sudo apt-get install postfix

Once you've got nginx, MySQL and PHP, then you're ready to go. These examples were developed for our Ubuntu Linux development environment so you may need to modify to suit your own set-up.

1. Get the source code

$ cd /var/www
$ git clone https://github.com/travelmassive/massiveplatform.git \
massiveplatform
Cloning into 'massiveplatform'...
remote: Counting objects: 133588, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1023/1023), done.
remote: Total 133588 (delta 162), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (133588/133588), 125.97 MiB | 1.08 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (94854/94854), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (6926/6926), done.

2. Create database and permissions

ubuntu@localhost$ mysql

mysql> create database massiveplatform;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> grant all on massiveplatform.* to massiveplatform@localhost
  identified by 'massiveplatform';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec)

3. Create an nginx configuration file

cd /var/www/massiveplatform
sudo cp massiveplatform_setup_files/localdev.massiveplatform.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

4. Edit your php.info

# Required by nginx php usage
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0

# Support users uploading large profile pictures from smart phones
post_max_size = 8M

# Maximum allowed size for uploaded files
upload_max_filesize = 8M

sudo service php5-fpm restart

5. Import Sample MySQL database

cd /var/www/massiveplatform
zcat massiveplatform_setup_files/massiveplatform.utf8mb4.sql.gz | mysql -u massiveplatform -p massiveplatform

cd /var/www/massiveplatform
zcat massiveplatform_setup_files/massiveplatform.sql.gz | mysql -u massiveplatform -p massiveplatform

6. Copy settings.php and non-git files into sites/default

cd /var/www/massiveplatform
mkdir sites/default
cp massiveplatform_setup_files/settings.php sites/default
# note - edit settings.php here if you changed database name or password
tar zxvf massiveplatform_setup_files/sites.tar.gz

7. Fix permissions - allow web server write access to default/files

sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www/massiveplatform
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/massiveplatform/sites/default/files
sudo chmod 444 /var/www/massiveplatform/sites/default/settings.php

8. Ready!

Ok, now point your browser to your web server. If you are developing on your local server you can probably use "localhost", or if you have a configured hosts files you can use "localdev.massiveplatform.com" as we've used in our example.

If you have succesfully installed Massive Platform, your web browser should look something like this:

9. Default Logins

• Moderator account: "moderator / moderator"
• Demo account: "demo / demo"
• Admin account: "admin / massive"

Get this far? Let Us Know!

User Roles

• Public Member
  Can view all the site content.
  Can't peform any actions such as RSVP to event or follow members.
• Un-Approved Member
  A freshly signed up member.
  Can join events, update profile and follow other members or companies.
  Profile displayed on /community page but no chapter member pages
• Approved Member
  Can create a company profile.
  Can also sign up for 'approved member only' events.
• Chapter Leader
  Can create events for their chapter, approve members.
  Can send announcements to their chapter
• Moderator
  A community manager role, allowing creation of chapters, edit any event, chapter, company or profile info.
  Moderators can flag unapproved accounts to request account holders to amend their profile.

Massive Platform API

• api/public/test - API test page
• api/public/stats - basic stats
• api/public/chapters_lat_lon - chapters lat and lon
• api/public/chapter_leaders - list of chapter leaders
• api/public/events - list of events

Development Tips

Handy drush commands

• drush cc all (clear the cache)
• drush fd (view features list)
• drush search-reindex --immediate (re-index the search)
• drush status-updates-post-organization-updates (fetch and post organization feeds)

Enabling Cron

• You must run the Drupal cron regularly to support tasks such as search indexing and email announcements.
• drush run-cron --uri=http://yoursite.com --root=/path/to/massiveplatform

Other tips and tricks

• To enable Twitter, edit sites/default/settings.php and include your Twitter OAuth Settings
• To edit SASS stylesheets you'll need compass installed (apt-get install compass), then run "compass watch sites/all/themes/tm" to update css files
• For testing emails, add the following to sites/default/settings.php to write emails to /tmp/DevelMailLog:
  $conf['mail_system'] = array( 'default-system' => 'DevelMailLog', );
• Update your industry taxonomy from massiveplatform_setup_files/segment_taxonomy_import.csv, use taxonomy_csv module.
• Google Anlaytics available by Drupal module (drush en google_analytics)
• git log -p massiveplatform_setup_files/settings.php (show new settings.php variables)

Enabling Wordpress Feeds

• You can display a feed of related wordpress blog posts to companies/companies/chapters from your blog.
• Edit sites/default/settings.php and set $conf['tm_enable_wordpress_feedme'] = true;
• Install the tm-feeds wordpress plugin (https://github.com/travelmassive/massiveplatform-wordpress-feedme)
• Set $conf['tm_wordpress_feedme_url'] to the URL to call on page loads to embed feeds.

What's freely available to use and what is copyright?

• Drupal is released under the Drupal License (GPL).
• Commercial use of any code in the "custom" folder prefixed with tm_ (example: tm_chapters, tm_users) is only allowed with express permission from Travel Massive Global P.B.C.
• The Travel Massive name and logo is trademarked and can not be re-distributed in subsequent works.
• Sample data such as company and profile images may also be subject to copyright by their owners.

Authors and Contributors

• Flipside - initial project design, HTML theme and prototype
• Ian C - project lead, information architecture, product launch, lots of stuff
• Robyn Stanley (@rumpledelf) - pre-release bug fixing, event management, email announcements
• Ryan Cross (@rcross) - pre-release project management
• Dean Rollins (@drollins) - newsfeed emails and search sort

Support or Contact

Having trouble? Check out the our project wiki (in development) or issue tracker. You can also contact us at platform@travelmassive.com and we’ll help you sort it out.