Is anyone working on FreeBSD port for OpenEMR?

OpenEMR Development
#1

Hello:

I learned about OpenEMR when I was on the FreeBSD website reading the porter’s handbook. There was a list of requested applications for which a FreeBSD port currently does not exist, and OpenEMR was on that list. I said, “what is that?” and discovered OpenEMR…

I am currently a practicing optometrist in rural NW Missouri, USA and I am evaluating whether OpenEMR would / could be a viable replacement for our current EHR (Revolution EHR). Optometry is my 2nd career – prior to this I had 12 years experience working as a software engineer. My first job was working with Medical Manger software, after that, I had data warehouse experience at Sprint PCS. The first versions of Linux were posted when I was a college student, and I’ve used FreeBSD for one reason or another at least since FreeBSD version ~6. Furthermore, my brother may or may not be a FreeBSD developer with 30 years experience…

I have Open EMR running successfully on my FreeBSD 14.0BETA4 box with Apache 2.4 ; MariaDB 10.11 ; php 8.2, and before I started working on making a FreeBSD port for OpenEMR, I thought I’d reach out to ensure I’m not duplicating efforts, etc…

#2

hi @DrBassmanOD , neat background, thanks for sharing.

There used to be a debian package but OpenEMR is now either installed as you have done or run as a docker.

#3

@gutiersa do you still run OpenEMR on your BSD machine? You may be interested in connecting with @DrBassmanOD

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#4

I took some time today to try the docker method – it is much easier than trying to make sure I have all the correct software installed, etc. The only drawback is docker doesn’t run on FreeBSD – it is possible to run OpenEMR in a docker which is running on a linux VM inside of FreeBSD as I discovered.

In the process, I think I’ve verified a bug in OpenEMR…

  1. login to OpenEMR
  2. hover on the current user icon in the upper right corner → MFA Management.
  3. click the Add new… → TOTP Key
  4. type the password and press the <ENTER> key on your keyboard.
  5. Enjoy the blank screen… (this is the bug)

Repeat all the above steps, only after typing your password, use the mouse to click the <Submit> button, and NOW you see the QR code to set up your authenticator…

This bug was DRIVING ME CRAZY when I was trying to install everything by hand on my FreeBSD box. I could replicate the same behavior on my Windows 10 box under XAMPP.
The behavior is the same when running in docker.

How do I report this?

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#6

Can also see if you can replicate the error on one of the demos.

#7

Yes. I just verified the demo behaves the same way, even from my iPhone.

#8

hi @DrBassmanOD, what browser?

can’t reproduce it with firefox or chrome

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#9

I have replicated this with multiple browsers: Firefox, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi. I do not run Chrome. Multiple operating systems: FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, MacOS, iPhone

Are you pressing <tab> AFTER you type your password and BEFORE you hit <ENTER>? It does not work if you leave the cursor in the password field and hit your <ENTER> button. It DOES work if you tab to the “SUBMIT” button and then hit your <ENTER> button.

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#10

i’ve replicated it as well: firefox on opensuse linux - running with docker - latest development files 7.0.2-dev. clicking ‘submit’ works ok - and in this case i happened to have typed in the wrong password.

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#11

I see where the problem is in the code…I’m not ‘up to speed enough’ with git and the OpenEMR development environment to submit a CR…

In the file interface/usergroup/mfa_totp.php it creates that form:

  • On line 99, the <form> is set for onsubmit=‘return top.restoreSession()’ (this is what happens when you press<Enter>)

  • On line 129, the Submit <button> is set with onclick=“doregister(‘reg2’)”

Thus, when you press <Enter> the behavior is different from when you click the button.

Also, there is no closing </FORM> tag for that form…

I will see if, later today, I can get up to speed and submit my first CR…

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#12

For this simple change, you could do following:

  1. On your site, change line 99 of mfa_totp.php onsubmit to match submit click - doregister(‘reg2’).
    Since doregister calls restoreSession before dom submit, this will sync event actions.
  2. If it works, create github account.
  3. Fork the project repository
  4. From branch dropdown, create a new branch
  5. Edit mfa_totp.php line 99 and save.
  6. Follow PR prompts and submit.
#13

think you have to leave that line alone since it has to monitore the different actions with reg1 and reg2

how about adding a keypress eventlistener to the password input?

#14

Turns out you remove the “type=button” from the Submit button, you also remove the onclick="" from the submit button. This turns that button into the Submit for the form, you then put the function call that was in the onclick="" part of the button – move that up to line 99 for the onsubmit="", and that fixes everything…

I think I’ve opened a Pull Request #6916. (first time). Can someone let me know if I did it correctly?