Web Development Assignment

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  assets/             contains assets definition
  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  controllers/        contains Web controller classes
  mail/               contains view files for e-mails
  models/             contains model classes
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  tests/              contains various tests for the basic application
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages
  views/              contains view files for the Web application
  web/                contains the entry script and Web resources

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by this project is PHP 5.4.0 installed.

CONFIG

Database

Update the file config/db.php with YOUR DATABASE CREDENTIALS, for example:

return [
    'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=assignment',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '1234',
    'charset' => 'utf8',
];

NOTES:

The application won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.

Migration

Once you have set up the database and edited the config in config/db.php you can then run the migration using the following command:

php yii migrate

This command will create the database schema and also insert some data for the purposes of checking functionality.

Accessing the application

Open CMD/Command Prompt and navigate to the root directory of the project.

Run the following command: php yii serve

You can then access the application through the following URL:

http://localhost:8080

TESTING

Tests are located in tests/functional directory. They are developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework.

Before running the tests you must configure the environment.

Prerequisites

Create an empty database and name it assignment_tests

Then navigate to tests/bin and run the following command: