Designed to help Farmer Cooksey at Canterbury Gardens with his day-to-day farming operations by applying data aggregation, fusion and visualisation.
You can also access this project from our GitHub Repository
Our video demonstration of the project can be viewed on Youtube
The data processing and robustness criterias were primarily addressed in CanterburyGardens\app\Http\Controllers\MainController and visualisation has been addressed primarily in C:\xampp\htdocs\CanterburyGardens\resources\views in the files graphs.blade.php and index.blade.php
1 - Install Xampp PHP7 and install Composer
Install Xampp with PHP7 or a preferred local web server solution.
2 - Edit C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and add the following to it
<VirtualHost canterburygardens.dev:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\canterburygardens\public"
ServerAdmin canterburygardens.dev
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\canterburygardens></Directory>
</VirtualHost>
3 - Add a new host to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
127.0.0.1 canterburygardens.dev
4 - Run Xampp as admin, install the Apache and MySQL components then start them
5 - Visit phpMyAdmin and create a local database with the name CanterburyGardens
6 - Git pull or copy the project files into C:\xampp\htdocs\CanterburyGardens and then cd into this directory from command prompt
7 - Run composer update to download all the packages required by Laravel
8 - Copy .env.example and save as .env then in terminal run php artisan key:generate
9 - Finally run php artisan migrate:refresh --seed and visit Canterbury Gardens, login with cooksey@canterburygardens.co.uk password
- Laravel - The MVC driven PHP framework
- Chart.js - Graph visualisations
- Bootstrap 3 - Responsive front-end component library
- Cosmo - Bootstrap theme
- Font Awesome - Scalable vector icons
- Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - Rainfall data from the government
- Guzzle - A PHP HTTP Client
- Met Office - Weather data feeds
- Deniz Aygun
- Daniel Bard
- Huy Le Nguyen