Startups Platform

Startups is a platform Designed to enlist all Startups across Zimbabwe and its serves to act as an interface between investors and startups. The platform will support rich feature such as startup related news, market performances for the startups and Guide to aid startups in seeking the investment of their choice.

How to Setup Locally on your machine for Development?

If you are a developer I suggest you use the following tools for development:

php7 composer Hosting: WAMP or LAMP Code editor: VSCODE (alternative phpstorm) Database: MYSQL, phpadmin (use mysqlworkbench as an additional optional tool)

After obtaining these tools please makes sure you followig steps

1. Install and setup WAMP or LAMP using BITNAMI

visit: https://bitnami.com/stacks

Download the latest version and Install

2. After you have installed WAMP or LAMP configure your project to run on your WAMP (Apache and MySql)

   1. Clone the repository to you local working directory and working directory will be the "htdocs" folder in apache2 server within your WAMP or LAMP

      'git clone https://github.com/developerprince-eng/startups.git'

      NB: Its a private repository so make sure you have credentials or use your credentials to clone this only works if you are added as a contributor by the administrator.

      save and close

3. MYSQL Run phpmyadmin and create a schema called startups_dev

import a file called startups_dev.sql then execute the file it will automatically generate the tables for the database

4. Now you need to create a dotenv file

   1. Project Dictory

   +-- startups | +-- application | +-- assets | +-- system | +-- tests | +-- vendor | +-- .editorconfig | +-- .env | +-- .gitignore | +-- .dotenv | +-- .htaccess | +-- .loadenv.php | +-- contrubuting.md | +-- composer.json | +-- composer.lock | +-- index.php | +-- palette.pdf | +-- readme.rst | +-- startups_dev.sql

   Copy everything in .dotenv to .env and database name to match the DB on you phpadmin and credentials

   2. install dependencies

composer i

save and close

5. Once you done restart WAMP or LAMP stack and in your browser type 'localhost/startup'

If you followed all step carefully you should be running locally, if any errors pop please contact Prince Kudzai Maposa on the following contact details: Cellphone: +263 786808538

Common Practices

Please take note of the following common practices

create a branch then use that branch for development if any changes are made contact CTO and he will allow you to merge you branch to the master. This done especially experimenting on new featrues.

Happy Coding

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