About this project (currently v1.4.2)

Small Laravel projects while learning the framework.

Blog features

• View blogs as a guest.
• Register & Login as an user.
• Logged user can post and view blogs.
• User can edit or delete own posts.
• Post can be filtered by tag or user that posted.
• Duplication will be validated.
• Feedback on validation error.
• Blog pagination.

What I learned new

• Store files.
• Migrations in Laravel applications.
• Authenticate users before performing an action.
• Editable and dynamic <option>.
• Rendering 404 page.
• Pagination according to data.
• Laravel Mix.
• Run front-end assets in Laravel applications.
• Creating slugs.
• Deploying Laravel apps to heroku
  • Create a Procfile
  • Write web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 public in the Procfile
  • Add all the env variables APP_DEBUG, APP_KEY, APP_NAME, DB_$vars are compulsory.
  • Make sure to set buildpacks in this order (use command heroku buildpacks add $BUILDPACK_NAME)

    1. heroku/node
    2. heroku/php

  • Run heroku run php artisan migrate -a $APP_NAME for database migration.
  • Run heroku run npm i -a $APP_NAME for installing node packages.

Technologies used

• Laravel
• Bootstrap
• FontAwesome
• FreeMySqlHosting

FAQ features

1. Admin Login
   • Dashboard
   • Manage FAQs (CRUD)
   • Drag & Drop to sort quickly
   • Verification message on every action
2. Visitors view
   • Search any FAQ instantly
   • Accordion FAQ dropdown

Migrations

User

• name
• email
• password
• role (default: 2) [1 => 'super-admin', 2 => 'admin']

FAQ

• question
• answer
• priority
• publication_status [0 => Unpublished, 1 => Published]

Technologies used

• Laravel [v8.4]
• JavaScript
  • jQuery [v3.2.1]
  • DataTable [v1.10.25]
  • jQuery UI [v1.12.1]
  • TypedJS [v2.0.12]
  • metisMenu [v3.3]
  • alertifyJs [v1.13]
• Bootstrap ['home' => v5.0.2, 'admin' => v3.3.7]
• FontAwesome [v4.7]

What I learned new

• Laravel components
• Making global variable for all blade files. [in app\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php add the following code inside boot method]

      View::share('NAME', VALUE);
  

• Laravel custom error message [in app\Exeptions\Handler.php add the following code]

      protected function unauthenticated($request, AuthenticationException $exception)
      {
          return $request->expectsJson()
              ? response()->json(['message' => $exception->getMessage()], 401)
              : redirect()->guest(route('login'))->with('message', 'You need to login first');
      }
  

Getting Started

use following credentials to login:

Email	Password
[email protected]	ponditadmin

Contacts features

• View contacts with multiple numbers.
• Add and Edit contacts.
• Search any contact by the name or number.
• Download contacts

What I learned new

• Using laravel with jQuery Datatables
• Building single page application with ajax.
• Using DomPdf package

Technologies used

• Laravel [v8.4]
• JavaScript
  • jQuery [v3.2.1]
  • DataTable [v1.10.25]
• DomPdf [v2.0.1]

Attendance features

• View student attendances
• Add or Delete an attendance
• Keep track of payment dates

What I learned new

• Using external classes on blade files. [in config\app.php add the required class inside aliases array]

      'Carbon' => Illumiate\Facade\Carbon::class;
  

BankStatement features

• View statements by date.
• Peak at current balance.
• Add a particular statement for a day.

What I learned new

• Grouping of data

Technologies used

• Laravel [v8.4]
• JavaScript
  • jQuery [v3.2.1]
  • DataTable [v1.10.25]