Rosary Presenter

A multi-user web app for leading the Rosary, novenas, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet — built for live presentation at prayer services. Live at loveandrosary.com.

What It Does

• Slide-based presentation — navigate prayer-by-prayer with leader/congregation text split on screen
• Rosary bead ring — SVG visualization tracks which bead is active in real time
• Session types — General Rosary, Memorial Rosary, Deceased Novena, Divine Mercy Chaplet
• Novena groups — link 9 daily sessions into one group with a public day-picker page
• Audio uploads — attach MP3/audio per session (up to 50 MB)
• Multi-user — role hierarchy: superadmin → admin → superuser → user
• Public profiles — each user gets a /username page with their public sessions
• Donate strip — optional PayPal / Venmo / Buy Me a Coffee link on public pages

Stack

• PHP 8 + PDO (no framework, no Composer dependencies)
• MySQL 8 / MariaDB
• Vanilla JS (no build step)
• Apache/Nginx with .htaccess rewrite rules

Setup

1. Configure database

cp config/db.example.php config/db.php
# Edit config/db.php — fill in DB_HOST, DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS
# Set BASE_URL if deploying to a subdirectory (e.g. '/rosary')

2. Create the database schema

Visit install.php in your browser once to create all tables and seed the superadmin account. Delete install.php immediately after.

Default superadmin credentials: supadmin / supadmin — change these immediately.

3. Configure the web server

Apache — .htaccess is included. Enable mod_rewrite and set AllowOverride All.

Nginx — add to your server block:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @php;
}
location @php {
    rewrite ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /present.php?username=$1&slug=$2 last;
    rewrite ^/([^/]+)$ /profile.php?username=$1 last;
}

4. Uploads directory

chmod 755 uploads/

5. SMTP (optional)

Configure outbound email in Admin → Settings for registration confirmation and password reset emails. If left blank, the app will auto-confirm new users instead.

Deployment Checklist

• config/db.php filled in with production credentials
• install.php deleted after first run
• uploads/ is writable by the web server
• BASE_URL matches your subdirectory path (leave empty for domain root)
• Superadmin password and email changed
• SMTP configured in Admin → Settings

Project Structure

Rosary/
├── admin/              # Admin dashboard (auth-gated)
│   ├── index.php       # Dashboard home
│   ├── setup.php       # Create/edit a session
│   ├── novena_group.php
│   ├── users.php
│   ├── settings.php    # Site-wide settings (superadmin only)
│   └── audio.php
├── api/                # JSON endpoints (upload, save, delete)
├── assets/
│   ├── css/            # present.css, public.css, setup.css
│   └── js/             # presenter.js, rosary.js, setup.js
├── config/
│   ├── db.example.php  # Copy → db.php and fill in credentials
│   └── db.php          # (gitignored — contains real credentials)
├── data/
│   └── prayers.php     # All prayer text + build_decade_slides()
├── includes/
│   ├── auth.php        # require_auth(), current_user(), has_role()
│   ├── build_slides.php
│   ├── donate.php
│   └── mailer.php
├── uploads/            # User-uploaded audio (gitignored)
├── index.php           # Public home — card grid of sessions
├── present.php         # Presentation player (public)
├── novena_public.php   # Novena day-picker (public)
├── install.php         # Run once, then delete
└── .htaccess           # URL rewriting

URL Routing

URL	Resolves to
/username/slug	present.php?username=X&slug=Y
/username	profile.php?username=X
/username/novena-slug	Redirects to novena_public.php?group_id=X

License

Private project — all rights reserved.