Learning Centre App

##Description Learning Centre Web Application for Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie

#####Feel free to modify it for your own faculty or needs.

##Installation ###Prerequisites

• Install Git
  • Windows:
    • Git
  • Linux (Ubuntu):
    • sudo apt-get install git
  • Mac:
    • Installed by default
• Install WAMP,LAMP or MAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.4):
  • Windows:
    • WAMP (Download WAMP with PHP 5.4)
  • Linux (Ubuntu):
    • sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ (Do not remove the ^)
  • Mac:
    • MAMP (Download the free version of MAMP )
• Make sure you can run PHP in the Command Line
  • How to modify the PATH variable: Windwos, Linux/Mac
• Enable the openssl and Mcrypt modules in PHP
• Enable the rewrite_module in Apache

###Instructions

• Open Terminal/Command Line/Git Bash
• Change to the folder where you store your PHP code (Usually htdocs or www).
• run git clone https://github.com/andreykul/learningcentre.git.
• Enter the Folder created.
• run php composer.phar install to install dependencies.
• [Optional] Open PhpMyAdmin create a new database called "learningcentre"
• Create a file app/config/database.php and copy database.php into it
  • Modify the following in the MySQL section to match your database:
    • host
    • database
    • user
    • password
• [Optional] Modify app/config/mail.php to send actual emails
• run php artisan migrate to update your database
• run php artisan db:seed to populate the tables
• You should have now have two accounts:
  • Email: "[email protected]" , Password: "password"
  • Email: "[email protected]" , Password: "password"
  • Email: "[email protected]" , Password: "password"
  • Email: "[email protected]" , Password: "password"
• You should be able to access the project in your browset at:
  • http://localhost/learningcentre/public or
  • http://localhost:8888/learningcentre/public or
  • http://localhost:[port]/learningcentre/public
• Modifications to public/.htaccess might be needed to work correctly

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##Database ###Migrations

• Update tables
  • run php artisan migrate
• Reset tables
  • run php artisan migrate:refresh
• Remvoe tables
  • run php artisan migrate:reset
• Undo last table change
  • run php artisan migrate:rollback
• Manual reset (If migrations fail to work)
  • Open PhpMyAdmin and remove each table manually
  • run php artisan migrate

###Populate/Seed

• run php artisan db:seed

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##Development

• New Issue Branch
  • git checkout -b issue-#
  • git push -u origin issue-#
• Working on somebody's branch (Will download their branches)
  • git fetch
• Merge problems
  • You will be given your code and the other code sepperated with special symbols.
  • Decided what part to remove and what to keep
  • Add and Commit
  • You are good to go, push
• Working with Emails
  • If you want to see the email that is sent in pretend mode
  • First change the mailer.php to display the body of the message as explained here.
  • You are able to view the pretend emails at "app/storage/logs"