readme.md

Documentation

• Laravel v5.5
• Volt Bootstrap 5 Demo
• Template Docs

Setting up local environment

• Download PHP v.7.0.33
  • Windows (ZIP Archive)
  • Linux (Instructions)
• Extract the above downloaded file to a suitable location
• Add this folder to your path
  • Remove any other versions of PHP if present (just removing them from your path will work)
• Open php.ini, which can be found at the root directory of the newly extracted PHP folder
• Replace all occurences of D:\Program Files\php-7.0.33 with the absolute path of your PHP installation folder (as this version of PHP doesn't support relative paths)
• Open a terminal and run php -v. If it looks something like below, you can continue else follow the above steps more carefully or try restarting your PC
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• After this, download Composer
  • Windows
  • Other
• Configure it accordingly so that you can run it from command line
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• Clone this repository at a location of your preference.
• Open a terminal inside this folder and run composer install or composer updateto download all the required dependencies
• Create a .env file from the provided .env.sample and fill in the required fields
• Run php artisan migrate from inside the project folder to migrate database structure
• Finally, run php artisan serve to start your local development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000

For initial login

• Open the database and insert an entry in the users table
  • Generate a compatible password by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8000/hash/{your-password} where {your password} is any string
  • Copy the above generated password & paste it in the password field of the new user
• Insert a record in the user_roles table using the user_id of the above inserted row & role as admin for unrestricted access
• Give c, r & u permissions to this new role using the user_role_permissions table (different row for each permission). role_id will be the same as id of the role you created in user_roles table

That's it, now open http://localhost:8000/login and login using the credentials (if the email you used belongs to the nitsikkim.ac.in domain, you can also login via google)