valentines2014

The Valentine's Day Matching Application for 2014.

If you get stuck or want help: Please Email Me! [email protected] ###Getting Started

• install vagrant or more detail
• install git/github windows or mac part 1 mac part 2 (you need command line tools)
• Open up the git command line (Git Shell for windows) (Terminal for mac)
• clone the puppet-lamp-stack repo git clone http://github.com/anglinb/puppet-lamp-stack vm
• run cd vm
• run git clone http://github.com/bishops/valentines2014 valentines
• run vagrant box add http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
• run vagrant up
• ssh into box vagrant ssh or Putty on windows pw = vagrant un = vagrant port = 2222 address = 127.0.0.1
• run cd /vagrant
• run sudo php chvhost.php "valentines/public"
• run curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php only run first time
• run mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer only run first time
• run cd valentines
• run composer install
• Open webbrowser to http://localhost:8888

###Learning how to contribute

• Learn the basics of git from the command line from codeschool
• Learn the basics of Laravel Framework
• Possibly start with a view located in the views folder
• Once you're ready to commit:
  • Run git pull This makes sure you have the latest copy of the repo
  • Change the file
  • Optional: run git status This tells you what files have changed etc
  • Run git add . This add all the files you've changed to the staging area
  • Run git commit -m "YOUR MESSAGE" Replace YOUR MESSAGE with some the says what you did ex Adds question view
  • Run git push This pushes your code up to github.com so everyone else can pull it down
  • Win

###Intro To Laravel The File System

 app/-------------------------- Contains most of the custom code  
    commands/
    config/-------------------- Contains all the config options for databases, authentication, etc
        testing/--------------- Overrides the default configs when running tests
        local/----------------- Overrride the default configs when running on local machine
    controller/---------------- Contains all the controllers
    database/
        migrations/------------ Contains the database schema (the way the database is structured)
        seeds/----------------- Contains sample data that gets put into database for testing
    lang/
    models/-------------------- Contains all the models (code that makes an object out of a row of the database)
    start/
    storage/------------------- Contains pre-compiled views, sessions, and uploads
    tests/--------------------- Contains all unit tests
    views/--------------------- Contains all views (template files that say what a page should look like)
    filters.php---------------- Set of "filters" that can be applied to routes (protects login-required pages)
    routes.php----------------- File that contains all the routes (urls) that your application will respond to
/bootstrap
/public----------------------- Webserver root
    index.php----------------- File where all requests are sent
/vendor----------------------- Contains all 3rd party frameworks/code
artisan----------------------- Command Line Utility to run migrations 
phpunit----------------------- Runs unit tests
composer.json----------------- Contians all the 3rd party dependecies

###Trouble Shooting

Common Errors and Fixes

• permission denied for file_put_contents from the /vagrant/valentines dir run sudo chmod -R o+w app/storage