Online Demo:

Useful commands

• init DB: ./init-db.sh

Name of your chosen PHP framework and why.

Framework: Laravel

Why choose Laravel, beacuse:

1. Laravel is a beautiful MVC framework.
2. Laravel has many build-in functions such as file storage, pagination etc.
3. It help write beautiful and clean code.
4. Laravel speed up development.

Steps needed to setup the solution and dependencies.

Option 1: Run localhost with customized env

• Copy the config file from .env.example cp -r .env.example .env, then update the database configuration.
• run composer install
• Link the file storage: php artisan storage:link
• migrate the data: php artisan migrate
• run server: php artisan serve

Option 2: Run localhost with sqlite3 and .env.testing

composer install
rm -r database/database.sqlite
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan storage:link
php artisan migrate --env=testing
php artisan serve --port=8999 --host=127.0.0.1 --env=testing

or simply run ./run-server.sh

Steps needed to run the test suite.

Run unit test with testing env

composer install
php artisan storage:link
rm -r database/database.sqlite
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate --env=testing
./vendor/bin/phpunit

or simply run ./run-unit-test.sh

Time taken to complete the test.

7 hrs.

Any compromises/shortcuts you made due to time considerations.

• Free UI: Saving time on writing UI.

  https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-dashboard

• Column-Sortable: https://github.com/Kyslik/column-sortable ,Package for handling column sorting in Laravel 5.7

  By using this package, the task of the column sorting was completed in 10 mins.

• Laravel, simple and fast MVC framework.