portal.ce.pdn.ac.lk

Internal and Public web service provider of the Department of Computer Engineering

Team of Developers

• https://portal.ce.pdn.ac.lk/contributors

Useful Commands and Instructions

You need to install WAMP or XAMP server and run it before following commands. Please make sure you already created a Database and a Database User Account.

Install Dependencies

// Install PHP dependencies
composer install

// Install Node dependencies (development mode, can use `npm` as well, but recommended to use `pnpm` here)
pnpm install
pnpm run dev

Additional useful commands

// If you received mmap() error, use this command
php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer install

// Update PHP dependencies
composer update

// Prepare the database
php artisan migrate

Prepare for the first run

First you need to copy .env.example and save as .env in the root folder, and change the Admin and User credentials, Database configurations.

Next follow the below commands

// Prepare the public link for storage
php artisan storage:link

// Reset the database and seed the data
php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

// Prepare webhook for unit testing
git config --local core.hooksPath .githooks

Serve in the Local environment

// Serve PHP web server
php artisan serve

// Serve PHP web server, in a specific IP & port
php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8000

// To work with Vue components, you need to run this in parallel (can use `npm` as well, but recommended to use `pnpm` here)
pnpm run watch

Cache and optimization

// Remove dev dependencies
composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan view:cache

php artisan config:clear
php artisan route:clear
php artisan view:clear

Maintenance related commands

php artisan down --message="{Message}" --retry=60
php artisan up

Other useful instructions

// Create Model, Controller and Database Seeder
php artisan make:model {name} --migration --controller --seed

// Create a Email
php artisan make:mail -m

// Commandline interface for Database Operations
php artisan tinker

// Run the unit tests
php artisan test

Maintenance Scripts

Can be found under ./scripts. folder. In the production environment, scripts need to be run with sudo from the base directory to work correctly.

Ex:

sudo sh ./scripts/deploy-prod.sh

Resource Routes - Standardard Pattern

Verb	URI	Action	Route Name
GET	/photos/	index	photos.index
GET	/photos/create	create	photos.create
GET	/photos/view/{photo}	show	photos.show
GET	/photos/edit/{photo}	edit	photos.edit
GET	/photos/delete/{photo}	delete	photos.delete
POST	/photos/	store	photos.store
PUT	/photos/{photo}	update	photos.update
DELETE	/photos/{photo}	destroy	photos.destroy

Contributors

Thanks to all the contributors who have helped with this project!

https://portal.ce.pdn.ac.lk/contributors