Project Information

About Project

Taskr is task sourcing platform for people to outsource tasks to others who wants to make a quick living from it. Taskr is built on Laravel framework using PHP 7.1 and currently developed by a group of five developers.

Setting Your Dev Environment

As this project is not meant to be production ready, it is advisable to perform the same steps below when deploying the application for production.

Follow the steps below to replicate the environment required for development. There are two ways to setup Taskr where one involves in running the environment in a virtual machine while the other in your local machine. It is up to your discretion in the choice made.

Using Homestead (Recommended)

1. Install and Configure Homestead by following this guide.
   1. When configuring the sites in homestead.yaml, use the code block below and replace the folder path with the actual path

       sites:
       - map: homestead.app
       to: {folder_path}/public
   

2. Start Homestead by vagrant up and SSH into Homestead using vagrant ssh.
3. Navigate into the project folder within the SSH session and run composer install to get PHP dependencies.
4. Run yarn --no-bin-links to install Javascript dependencies (e.g. jQuery, Bootstrap, etc.).
5. Run cp .env.example .env and modify the .env file using your favourite editor e.g. nano, vim, sublime
6. From Laravel Homestead guide, put in the username and password of the PostgreSQL into .env. defaults: username: homestead, password: secret
7. Login to PostgreSQL database by running psql -U homestead -h localhost and create database using CREATE DATABASE taskr within psql shell.
8. Generate an application key for laravel by running the command php artisan key:generate.
9. Run database migrations to setup the database tables automatically using php artisan migrate.
   1. You can also execute database setup code using the SQL file provided psql -U homestead -h localhost example.sql.
10. If configured properly in the guide found in step 1, your application should be accessible from your local machine through the domain you have configured.

Using XAMP (LAMP, MAMP, WAMP) Stack

1. Installing the pre-requisites using one-click installers provided by Bitnami below. Choose your stack based on your host operating system.
   1. https://bitnami.com/stack/lamp (Linux)
   2. https://bitnami.com/stack/wamp (Windows)
   3. https://bitnami.com/stack/mamp (MacOS)
2. Install composer onto your machine from https://getcomposer.org/.
3. Navigate to the project folder and run composer install to install PHP dependencies.
4. In the same folder, run yarn to install Javascript dependencies (e.g. jQuery, Bootstrap, etc.).
5. Create .env file and copy .env.example content into it. Configure .env information with respect to your host configuration.
6. Access your postgreSQL database using phpPgAdmin and create a new database called taskr.
7. Run database migrations to setup the database tables automatically using php artisan migrate.
   1. You can also execute database setup code using the SQL file provided psql -U {your_username} -h localhost example.sql.
8. Ensure that your project folder is in your Apache folder (e.g. Linux - /var/www/html) and it has writable permissions.
9. Navigate to the site based on your Apache settings using your browser.

Common Problems

• If certain errors appear due to lack of dependencies or missing path. Remove node-modules and yarn.lock and run yarn --no-bin-links to resolve.

Database Models and Manipulation

Due to the restrictions against ORMs (Eloquent), the project requires the execution of raw queries instead. To understand how to do that in Laravel, take a look at their documentation to learn more.

Populate the database with fake data

Run the SQL queries in database/beta-taskr.sql User with credentials u/test@gmail.com p/123456 has all data needed to explore all of taskr's functionality.

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Developer Announcement

Due to too many broken code pushed directly into the master branch, everyone should be developing within their branches and making pull request when trying to merge back into master.