This is a project built under CodeIgniter 3.1.11 with a few composer packages helping in making it work smoother.
This app aims to be able to give weather information and venue suggestions for travellers - travelAHHR.
Stable Docker version installed on local machine and a little of CLI knowledge
Easy installation is as follows:
- Clone repo via git into your local machine
- Open a CLI (CLI/powershell/bash) on your machine, and navigate to the project directory.
- Execute docker compose commands
# setup the project
mkdir travelahr_codeigniter
cd travelahr_codeigniter
git clone git@github.com:inomon/travelahr_codeigniter.git .
# initialize the container and setup the project
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it travelah_codeigniter_myapp_1 bash -c "composer install"If you want to access the server and do some tinkering, you can do so by using this command:
docker exec -it travelah_codeigniter_myapp_1 bashThis project is based off on the tools sets listed here:
- https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-codeigniter
- https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv
- https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/
Using bitnami/bitnami-docker-codeigniter, a docker container fit for CodeIgniter development was used as a base. It also contains a MariaDB build, but was not needed.
Composer is also setup on it, which made it helpful to install vlucas/phpdotenv - this is inline with existing/newer frameworks (also in other languages) that help in making sure environment based parameters are used correctly and efficiently.
Last is GuzzleHttp, which wrapped the API endpoints cohesively for a stable end-to-end communication - compared to using plain curl that needs further error catching and initializations.
Coding exam
Create a simple information web app for tourists. You can use Laravel with VueJS or OOP PHP + Javascript framework (JQuery/ES6/ES5)
This page aims to provide travel information of Japan for foreign tourists visiting Japan for the first time. The traveler has the possibility of going to the following cities. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo, Nagoya
Created project using CodeIgniter version 3.1.11, with MVC framework in mind.
Libraries are created to handle each API fetching procedure.
To alleviate strain on API fetch overload - hence using the free tier - a caching also was implemented to make sure that each new API fetch can be preserved for an ample time.
To be used in the future if needed (TTL = 120 seconds).
I chose the look and feel of the template, based on a existing free bootstrap template, that emcompasses the simple yet straightforward mission of the app. And its ready to implement responsive layout is a welcome feature.
The only form, has the required list of locations for now, but its build is open for the possibility of creating a searchable field on universal locations (not limited to Japan). It is also located at different key points of the app for accessibility: landing page header, landing page footer, venue listing page top bar.
On the weather forecast section, I retained the weather icons provided by OpenWeather. Since those are already very descriptive, I've included only the weather description and the timestamp. This shows in a glance a timeline of the weather.
I used simple classes that call the endpoints for each service that we need which gets digested into a simple array. This simple array is then fed to the view templates with the sole purpose of displaying content. All other transactions for building the data is only left on libraries. While the controller is just dispatching the needed library to use and feeding the returned data into our template. This is a starting point for an example of making sure that we follow the most basic principle of MVC.