Movie Collection Project

Installation

Composer

Run composer install to pull in all dependencies

Storage

The app can be configured to write to a SQLite file in storage/db.sqlite. To do so, create an empty sqlite file:

touch storage/db.sqlite

Configuration

1. In the project root dir, copy the .env.example file to .env
2. Edit your .env file set the full path to the sqlite file: DB_DATABASE=/full_path_to_project_root/storage/db.sqlite In the future if you wanted to use something like MySQL or SQL Server all you'd have to do is update the db settings in the config file and then run the db migration scripts.
3. Create a new app key. This should generate the key and save it to your .env file:

   php artisan key:generate
   

Data

Run the db migrations scripts. Note: you can also run this in the future to reset the SQLite file to a pristine state:

php artisan migrate:refresh

If you want to seed the SQLite file with test data:

php artisan db:seed

Web Server

You can either serve the app either by:

1. Starting a local development server at http://localhost:8000. From the project root directory, run:

   php artisan serve
   

2. Using Apache or Nginx:

• Configure your web server's document root to be the /public directory.
• All files and directories within the /storage and the /bootstrap/cache directories should be made writable by your web server.

Testing

The unit and application tests are configured to run against an in-memory sqlite db so it won't have any effect on data in the sqlite file.

Run the tests from project root dir with:

./vendor/bin/phpunit