/appointment

dentist appointment management api

Primary LanguagePHP

About Appointment

Build the backend of an api to manage users and appointments.

During covid, my dentist office specifically kept calling me to change appointments- It made me wonder how things are done from their end and how to possibly make the experience better overall.

This api is specifically for a dentist’s office to help manage their database.

If you would like to follow along in the series - The playlist link for this video can be found here

Tech stack

- Laravel/PHP
- SQL

Project setup

  • Laravel valet

    • If you do not have Laravel Valet installed, follow the instructions here
      TL/DR
      • brew update
      • brew install php
      • Install composer here
      • composer global require laravel/valet. Be sure the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory is in your system's "PATH".
      • valet install
    • Directions to serve the site (https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/valet#serving-sites):
      TL/DR
      • In your terminal, make a new directory for the project:
        • mkdir ~/Code
        • cd ~/Code
        • run valet park
    • Fork or clone project here into ~/Code directory: appointment api
    • Once project is cloned, spin up the website at appointment.test/api

  • MySQL

    • brew install mysql@5.7

    • brew services start mysql@5.7

    • Once valet and project has been cloned locally, run composer install

How to view api

Use Postman install here or browser to visit api route - Example route to visit Get all users

How to run Test

  • Initialise the database seeder by running the command: php artisan db:seed
  • Remove all tables and add new data: php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

If you need to make changes to the database:

  • Run the command: php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
  • Make your changes
  • Then run the command php artisan db:seed and confirm your changes in the database.