Installing Foxtrot
The only prerequisite is to have a local PHP 7 web server running.
A quick and easy way to set up a local testing/development server, specially on Windows, is using WAMP or XAMPP. Just download it, run the installer and follow the steps.
Also, note that only up-to-date modern browsers are supported and that so far testing has been done on WebKit browsers (Opera, Chrome, new Edge) only.
We don't offer pre-built releases yet. But building Foxtrot only takes one click.
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Download the source code from GitHub: https://github.com/gquagliano/foxtrot-framework/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
You may notice that the full source code is quite large. That's because it does come with a couple of third party libraries to do complex stuff like generating PDFs or reading Excel files. But, if you don't use them, your app will be much smaller.
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Extract
foxtrot-framework-masterinto your local server's folder. If you installed XAMPP, by default that should bec:\xampp\htdocs\.You can rename
foxtrot-framework-master, or extract everything directly on your server's document root; if you do so, just change the links on the following steps as required.
The app manager and the editor are designed for personal use on a local and private server (just like a desktop app). Uploading the
/construirand/gestorfolders to a shared server will have severe security implications.
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Open http://localhost/foxtrot-framework-master/construir in your browser.
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Click
Construir Foxtrot(Build Foxtrot).
If you see the following message, it's done.
Open http://localhost/foxtrot-framework-master/gestor in your browser.
Open http://localhost/foxtrot-framework-master/desarrollo in your browser. No compilation or build process is required.
Foxtrot can host multiple apps. While on production the system would choose which app to run based on the domain name (or other custom procedure you may have written), on a development server (i.e. when you open /desarrollo, which means development) it will run the app that has been selected in the app manager.