PHP Developer assignment

Task

Your task is to create a PHP application that is a feeds reader. The app can read feed from multiple feeds and store them to database. Sample feeds http://www.feedforall.com/sample-feeds.htm.

Requirements

• The application must be developed by using a php framework and follow coding standard of that framework.
• As a developer, I want to run a command which help me to setup database easily with one run.
• As a developer, I want to run a command which accepts the feed urls (separated by comma) as argument to grab items from given urls. Duplicate items are accepted.
• As a developer, I want to see output of the command not only in shell but also in pre-defined log file. The log file should be defined as a parameter of the application.
• As a user, I want to see the list of items which were grabbed by running the command line. I also should see the pagination if there are more than one page. The page size is up to you.
• As a user, I want to filter items by category name on list of items.
• As a user, I want to create new item manually
• As a user, I want to update/delete an item

How to do

1. Fork this repository
2. Start coding
3. Use gitflow to manage branches on your repository
4. Open a pull request to this repository after done

Solution

Requirement

• Apache: 2.2 or higher.
• PHP: 7.1.17 or higher.
• MySQL: 5.5 or higher.
• Composer: 1.6.5 or higher.

Configuration and installation:

1. Install vendor:

   composer install
   

2. Create .env file:

   cp .env.example .env
   

3. Edit database configuration in .env file:

• DB_DATABASE value can be whatever. You don't need to create a database, my command in Usage section will help you.

  DB_CONNECTION=mysql
  DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
  DB_PORT=3306
  DB_DATABASE=feeds_reader
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=
  

4. Generate key application:

   php artisan key:generate
   

Usage

1. Create database:

   php artisan initializeDatabase
   

2. Get data from feed URL:

   php artisan feedUrl {URL} {logFile}
   

• URL parameter is the URL you want to get feed data. You can implement with many URLs by separating by comma.

• logFile parameter is the log file to write output of this process.

  • Currently, accepted values for this parameter are feed_log_1, feed_log_2, feed_log_3. These files are located in storage/logs.
  • You can edit or create more log options in config/logging.php.

• Example command:

  php artisan feedUrl https://www.feedforall.com/sample.xml,https://www.feedforall.com/sample-feed.xml feed_log_1
  

After running two commands above, your database is completely created.

You also can use web app on: http://domain.name/base-php

• Domain name depends on server you use.

Reference

This app is powered by Laravel v5.8, Bootstrap v3.4.0 and jQuery v3.4.1

1. https://laravel.com
2. https://getbootstrap.com
3. https://jquery.com

Author

Khoa Nguyen | [email protected]