About

A simple Q&A website built using the PHP framework Laravel 5.8

Built as part of a coding challenge for the Vegan Hacktivists

Features

• View a list of questions that have been posted previously
• View all the answers submitted for a particular question
• Ability to post questions and answers (without authentication)

Full specification: https://veganhacktivists.org/apply/challenge

Getting started

Installation

Please check the official Laravel Documentation for server requirements and installation.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/MariaHCD/laravel-question-and-answer-site.git

Switch to the repo folder and install all the dependencies using composer

cd laravel-question-and-answer-site

composer install

Copy the example env file and make the required configuration changes in the .env file

cp .env.example .env

Run the database migrations (Set the database connection in .env before migrating)

php artisan migrate

Start the local development server

php artisan serve

You can now access the server at http://localhost:8000

TL;DR command list

git https://github.com/MariaHCD/laravel-question-and-answer-site.git
cd laravel-question-and-answer-site
composer install
cp .env.example .env

Enusre that the correct database connection information have been set in .env before running the migrations

php artisan migrate
php artisan serve

Database seeding

Populate the database with dummy data for questions and answers

Run the database seeder:

php artisan db:seed

Note : To refresh all tables in the database and run the seeders:

php artisan migrate:refresh --seed

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Code overview

Folders

• app - Contains all Eloquent models
• app/Http/Controllers - Contains all controllers
• app/Http/Requests - Contains all the form requests
• database/factories - Contains the factories for all the models
• database/migrations - Contains all the database migrations
• database/seeds - Contains the database seeders
• routes - Contains all routes defined in the file web.php

Environment variables

• .env - Environment variables can be set in this file. The minimum required environment variables are as follows:

    DB_CONNECTION = mysql
    DB_HOST = 127.0.0.1
    DB_PORT = 3306
    DB_DATABASE = database_name
    DB_USERNAME = database_username
    DB_PASSWORD = databaser_password

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