Repo behind the website bowen.today

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Contents

/lib/next-ferry - library to get back ferry data. Ferry API

/lib/pages - Simple pages

/lib/simplehtmldom - PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

API Returns

• to:
• from:
• map_url:
• next_ferry: timestamp
• next_sailings: [timestamp]
• current_capacity: %
• has_current_capacity: available (bool)

http://bowen.today/api/v1/ferry/vancouver-bowen
http://bowen.today/api/v1/ferry/bowen-vancouver

You can also pass in a specific future date to get the schedule from the future.
http://bowen.today/api/v1/ferry/bowen-vancouver/2021-02-22

Local development.

To start the server for local development

cd public
php -S localhost:8000
cmd+c to terminate

Then visit

localhost:8000

Sass Basics.

The watch flag tells Sass to watch style.scss, and re-compile CSS each time you save your Sass.

Open this in a separete terminal window.

cd public
sass --watch style.scss style.css

Todo Version 0.1

• Create a new Google Assistant Skill api.
• Styles and Design/UI/UX
• Add SASS support
  • Create SASS structure for vars, mixins, etc
• Real time vessel position APIs
  • Vessel Finder premium API
  • BC Ferries 2014 Python API
  • Canada Data Catalogue
• Implement separtion for Departures Today/Next Day ./ferry/index.php
• Provide a more human readable time.
• Make it work with timezones. (Test that part out)
• Make it work for the other direction. (Vancouver to Bowen)
• Try to use more live data instead the schedule. Need to figure out what data to scrape.
• Allow a different time then just now to be set. (When do you want to leave? )
• Optimization cache the wrappoing results locally for faster schedule.
• Support more routes. ???
• Create an api endpoint that returns the whole timetable in a computer readable format.
• Add .gitignore

Icons and colours from

Octicons

Secrets

Rename secrets.example.php to secrets.php

cp secrets.example.php secrets.php