voting/README

Setting up an election:

0. vote/include/election-sql.php expects a secret config file that exists
   only on the server and is included as PHP code.  It's hard coded currently
   to: /home/admin/secret/anonvoting currently.

   The file should look something like this:

<?php
       $mysql_host = "localhost";
       $mysql_user = "someuser";
       $mysql_password = "somepassword";
       $mysql_db = "somedb";
       $committee_name = "The Vote Masters";
       $committee_email = "elections@example.org";
?>

1. When I deploy, I create an account for the election, as the mysql root user:
   mysql -u root -p
   Password: <MYSQLROOTPW>

   Then Run these commands at the mysql> prompt:
     CREATE USER 'someusername' identified by 'somepassword';
     CREATE DATABASE somedbname;

   Then, exit, and at the main command line run:
   msyql -u root -p -D somedbname < ..../vote/include/schema.sql

   Then run this again:
   mysql -u root -p
   Password: <MYSQLROOTPW>

   and at the mysql command line, run these grant commands:

   GRANT SELECT on somedb.elections TO someuser@localhost;
   GRANT SELECT on somedb.election_choices TO someuser@localhost;


2. Create an election, with something like this:
   mysql -u root -D somedb -p

      SET NAMES 'utf8';
      INSERT t INTO elections (type, name, voting_start, voting_end, choices_nb,   question) VALUES ("elections", "2011 Spring Election", "2011-05-29 00:00:00", "2011-06-12 23:59:59", "7", "Which candidates would you like to see Elected?");
set @el_id = @@IDENTITY;
INSERT INTO election_choices (election_id, choice)
    VALUES
    (@el_id, 'Candidate 1'),
    (@el_id, 'Candidate 2'),
    (@el_id, 'Candidate 3'),
    (@el_id, 'Candidate 4');
select @el_id;

That number you see at the end is your election id.  The URL you'll give out
is thus something like:

  http://example.org/vote?election_id=THAT_NUMBER