amazingcar-2003

Archival preservation of Amazing Car Rent-a-Car, a car rental website from early-2000s Islamabad, Pakistan. Original PHP source is kept intact; the site is pre-rendered to static HTML and served from Firebase Hosting.

Production: https://amazingcar-2003.junaid.guru Firebase default: https://amazingcar-2003.web.app

About the site

Amazing Car Rent-a-Car operated from Office #2, Blue Area, Islamabad. The website (circa 2002–2003, hence the repo name) advertised both self-drive and chauffeur-drive rentals across a fleet including Pajero Intercooler, Toyota Corolla, Honda City, Kia Spectra, Nissan Sunny, Suzuki Baleno, and Hyundai Santro. Pricing is in Pakistani rupees, dated to the era.

Architecture

• PHP templates in webapp/ — untouched apart from the reservation form are pre-rendered to HTML via scripts/render.sh → dist/
• firebase deploy publishes dist/ to Firebase Hosting (CDN, 365-day cache)
• Reservation form posts to Formspree, no server-side PHP runs in production

Local development

Open the repo in VS Code → Reopen in Container (requires Docker Desktop).

The devcontainer boots a PHP 8.3 environment and serves webapp/ at http://localhost:5000.

To preview the pre-rendered static output (what Firebase Hosting will serve):

./scripts/render.sh
firebase emulators:start --only hosting 

Deployment

Push to main — GitHub Actions renders the site and deploys to Firebase Hosting.

Required GitHub secrets

Secret	Source
WIF_PROVIDER	terraform -chdir=firebase-cloud/terraform output -raw amazingcar_2003_wif_provider
GCP_SA_EMAIL	terraform -chdir=firebase-cloud/terraform output -raw amazingcar_2003_gcp_sa_email

Formspree setup

1. Sign up at https://formspree.io, create a form named amazingcar-2003-reservation
2. Replace YOUR_FORMSPREE_FORM_ID in webapp/reservation.php with the real form ID