PFC - Plataforma web de participación ciudadana

Web platform for citizen participation.
Developed as a final project for the degree in Informatics Engineering at "Universidad Nacional del Litoral".

Technologies

Laravel, Bootstrap, php, javascript, mysql.

Installation

Notes

• The project was developed and tested using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, PHP 5.5.9 and Laravel 5.1.
• Correct functioning on other systems and software versions is not guaranteed.

Set up DB

• Install Mysql server and create a user (optionally install phpmyadmin to manage your DBs)
• Create a mysql database locally named pfc utf8_general_ci
• Create a mysql database locally named tracker utf8_general_ci

Install project and dependencies

• Clone or download repo: git clone git@github.com:jeronimok/pfc.git
• Download and install composer https://getcomposer.org/download/
• Rename .env.example file to .envinside your project root and fill the database information (username and password)
• Open the command line and cd to the project root directory
• Run composer install or php composer.phar install

Generate app key

• Run php artisan key:generate

Run seeders and migrations

Note: Check the seeder UserTableSeeder.php and edit it to be able to quickly create admin users with your credentials.

• Run php artisan migrate
• Run php artisan db:seed to run seeders

Serve

• Run php artisan serve
• At this point you should be able to access the project at http://localhost:8000

Set up mail server for local testing (required for users registration)

• Create an account in https://mailtrap.io/
• Fill the required variables in your .env file

Set up recaptcha

• Create yor public and private recaptcha keys: https://cloud.google.com/recaptcha-enterprise/docs/create-key
• Fill the required variables in your .env file

User manual

• After installing the project, it may be helpful to read the user manual: https://github.com/jeronimok/pfc/blob/master/Manual-de-usuario.pdf

If for some reason your project stops working try this:

• composer install
• php artisan migrate

Contact

• Jerónimo Calace Montú
• jeronimo.calace@gmail.com