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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]