AnyLock Locker Management System

About This Project

AnyLock Locker Management System is a web application to track the rental of lockers. With this system, you can assign users and administrators to rent, checkout, and manage lockers of any type. The program was made to be very generic, so that it can be used in almost any locker rental scheme. AnyLock was created to help people and businesses get a free solution to manage their locker systems. It is free to use and manipulate however you please under the MIT license.

This application was developed by the Summer 2020 Open Source team at Portland State University, consisting of:

• Dmitri Murphy
• Davis Giang
• Alexander Wallace
• Paul Hubbard

Live Version and Demo Video

A hosted version of the project can be accessed at: https://www.anylock.dev/

A demo of the system by the project team is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EWBP1J4dpsM

Code Libraries and Resources Used

• Laravel PHP Framework (MIT License)
• Bootstrap CSS Library (MIT License)
• Google Fonts (Open Font License)
• JQuery (MIT License)
• FontAwesome (Free License)
• Background Locker Photo by moren hsu (Unsplah License) (Photo)

Note: This project was built using the base installation of the Laravel framework. Most of the code that was written by the project team exists in the following directories:

• app/Http/Controllers and app/Http/Service for the PHP code handling the HTTP requests
• resources/views for the HTML page tempates
• routes/web.php and routes/api.phpfor web routes

Code that was auto-generated by Laravel when creating the project has been marked with a comment at the top of the file.

Additionally, the Bootstrap documentation examples were sometimes used as a rough guide for our web page components. Generally, no examples were copied directly, but partial code samples from them may have been used in the development process. This notice is to preserve and comply with the MIT and CC BY 3.0 Bootstrap documentation licensing.

Finally, all the team members have previously worked on the Water Reuse Application open source project, also written in Laravel. Hence, small samples of code, designs and concepts were borrowed from our experience in building that application.

Running the Project

Prerequisites

• PHP 7.4+ (https://www.php.net/)
• Composer (https://getcomposer.org/)
• Git
• A running Postgres instance

Installation Steps (local)

1. Clone the project from this repository
2. cd AnyLock-LS and run composer install (see https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md)
3. Run cp .env.example .env to make a copy of the .env file
4. In the .env file, fill in the database fields (starting with DB_CONNECTION through to DB_PASSWORD)
5. Run php artisan key:generate to generate an application key
6. Run php artisan migrate to build the database tables
7. Run php artisan serve to serve the project locally

For more information, or for information about hwow to deploy the application to a production webserver, please see the Laravel installation instructions.

Set-Up Steps

Once you have your project running locally (or in production), do the following to set up the application:

1. Create your account
2. Set your account as an administrator through Postgres (run UPDATE users SET is_admin='t' WHERE id=1;)
3. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/settings to set your organization name and tagline
4. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/locations/overview to create a new location, and specify the number of lockers you have
5. You're all set to rent lockers!

Usage Instructions / Overview

Types of Users

There are 3 distinct categories of users we have defined:

1. Public users (not authenticated)
2. Registered users (authenticated, not admins)
3. Administrator users (authenticated, admin)

Each of these 3 types of users are shown different versions of the sidebar and have access to different pages in the application.

Renting a Locker

To rent a locker, a user should go to the "Rent a Locker" page from the sidebar and follow onscreen instructions.

Confirming a Locker Rental

To confirm a locker rental, a user must come in person to a user with administrator access so that the administrator can physically check the user into their locker (by removing the default lock and allowing the user to put their own lock on). The administrator should find the user in the Pending Rentals page, and follow onscreen instructions to confirm their rental.

Tests

https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/testing To add more tests, Follow the documentation and create the test in feature or unit directory (depending on what the tests is for)

The following two sections are taken from the Laravel Readme file:

About Laravel (framework used for this project)

Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel takes the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in many web projects. Laravel is accessible, powerful, and provides tools required for large, robust applications.

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Contributing

Please review the CONTRIBUTING.md file for instructions.

Code of Conduct

In order to ensure that our community is welcoming to all, please review and abide by the Code of Conduct.

License

This code is licensed under the MIT license.