DTU Times-laravel

• Installation

  • Requirements

    Compser

    Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

    To check installation of composer simply run this comand in your terminal.

    $ composer

    if your machine doesn't have composer install, install it from here.

    The laravel framwork itself has few requirements, Make sure your machine meets the following requirement

    Framework Dependencies

    • PHP >= 7.1.3
    • OpenSSL PHP Extension
    • PDO PHP Extension
    • Mbstring PHP Extension
    • Tokenizer PHP Extension
    • XML PHP Extension
    • Ctype PHP Extension
    • JSON PHP Extension

    DTUtimes-laravel Dependencies

    • php GD - library for image processing.

    If you are missing any dependency you may require to install it. On a linux oriented machine it can installed using apt-get install command.

    $ sudo apt-get install php-json php-xml

    This will download the latest version of that repository. Or you may specify the version of php you are currently using

    $ sudo apt-get install php7-json

  • Cloning the Repository

    $ git clone https://github.com/DTU-Times/backend-laravel.git

  • Installing

    Every laravel has a composer.json file which stores all the information about packages and dependencies. Make sure you are in projecy directory, then run the composer install command

    1. For Development environment.

       /backend-laravel $ composer install

    2. For Porduction evironment

       /backend-laravel composer install --no-dev

       The --no-dev flag will restrict composer to install dev-dependencies (The dependencies in require-dev).

    After successfull istallation, first you need to config the environment file .env. In you terminal run artisan key:generate command to create and set an app key.

    /laravel-backend $ php artisan key:genrate 

    DataBase Settings

    After successfull generation of key, change the DataBase settings in .env.

    DB_CONNECTION=mysql
    DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
    DB_PORT=3306
    DB_DATABASE=Yourdatabase
    DB_USERNAME=username
    DB_PASSWORD=password        

    After these changes, you may migrate the tables, by running artisan migrate command

    /laravel-backend $ php artisan migrate

    or If you wish to drop all the existing tanles and create new tables, (Fresh)

    /laravel-backend $ php artisan migrate:fresh

    You Also need to run the seeder for creating default user, Permissions and Roles.

    /laravel-backend $ php artisan db:seed

    Mail Driver Settings

    If you wish to use gmail smtp for sending mail, turn less-secure setting true in you account/security settings, and generate an app password.

    MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
    MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
    MAIL_PORT=587
    [email protected]
    MAIL_PASSWORD=passwordgenerated
    MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

    for testing purpose you may set MAIL_DRIVER to log, this will show sent mails in Laravel.log under storage directory.

    MAIL_DRIVER=log