I followed the following steps to create my app. And because they are too many steps; I split them into 5-6 posts each prefixed with Phase X – then the phase name. I will document here all the process including any obstacles or issues and how I tackled them. Step1. Installing Laravel Prepare the scenes […]
Following to our lecturer Dr Davison’s advice “Test your Laravel project on a public webserver at an early stage”, before I start diving into the app functions and structure, and right after installing my Laravel app on localhost XAMPP and scaffolded the authentication, I tried moving the project to my public hosting server under my […]
Here we are going to talk a bit about the built of the Laravel application and how files and folders are sorted. /app_root/.env Very important file, contains all the environment variables and sensitive data necessary to run the app such as MySQL database credentials, Mail server details and AWS details. (should git-ignored) if we plan […]
Step2. Create the DB main table Database Connection In order to hold any data entries or users for example in our app, we need a database. And to have that we have to link that database with to our project via editing the .env file from the app root directory like the following: Database Design […]
Our app represents a good example of the RESTful API, so what is that and why it is appropriate. Controller’s Methods HTTP Verb Path (URL) Action (Method) GET /results index GET /results/create create POST /results store GET /results/{result} show GET /results/{result}/edit edit PUT /results/{result} update DELETE /results/{result} destroy Tip: In the CLI we can run php artisan […]
Authentication is checking who a user is. Authorisation is checking what a user can do. Authentication Laravel comes with authentication out of the box, I used the following two simple commands: This will scaffold all of the routes and views we need for authentication, as below: And our app’s right corner is having the following two buttons: The Authenticated User From […]
Adding User Profile Page I added a new blade with corresponding controller and route to show some information about the current logged in user, along with his contribution to the site, how many results and how many flags (file) did he upload. I did two SQL queries in the controller to know about these two […]
I covered this section in a previous post, here: So, the actual deployment process was only a case of updating the files and database. Update the files After I finished all the work on my localhost, I deleted everything within the public server and kept only the .env file, as it has the public database […]
Starting the App To set up a local PHP environment and launch our Laravel app we can run the following CLI command inside the project folder: Artisan Help! Type the following command to get all the available Artisan available commands: Using Log for Debugging Emails If we want to test the Email sending feature in […]
Conclusion Laravel is quite a nice framework, we can build applications quickly with it as it offers scaffolding commands and easy to build solutions. It is easy to learn with tons of tutorial and well-explained documentation. It also fulfils the requirements for modern web applications such as authentication authorisation, email handling, CRUD, RESTful, MVC and […]