Fotista Auction

Source: https://github.com/fotistas/fotista (Laravel 4.2)

Installation:

1. Clone from https://github.com/fotistas/fotista
   
   git clone https://github.com/fotistas/fotista.git

   1	git clone https://github.com/fotistas/fotista.git

   
   
   teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel$ git clone https://github.com/fotistas/fotista.git Cloning into 'fotista'... remote: Counting objects: 642, done. remote: Total 642 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 642 Receiving objects: 100% (642/642), 5.23 MiB | 634.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (359/359), done. Checking connectivity... done.

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   teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel$ git clone https://github.com/fotistas/fotista.git Cloning into 'fotista'... remote: Counting objects: 642, done. remote: Total 642 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 642 Receiving objects: 100% (642/642), 5.23 MiB | 634.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (359/359), done. Checking connectivity... done.

   
   Then go to ‘fotista’ directory
   
   teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel$ cd fotista/

   1	teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel$ cd fotista/

2. Install required components:
   
   teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel/fotista$ composer install

   1	teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel/fotista$ composer install

3. Create a database ‘auction’ via phpmyadmin
4. Import the sql script ‘auction-20140823-0211.sql’ in ‘/sql archive/’ dir (extract the zip first).
5. Set a few configuration settings in /app/config/app.php like
   
   'url' => 'http://localhost/works/laravel/auction/public',

   1	'url' => 'http://localhost/works/laravel/auction/public',

   
   and the database (Laravel 4 dont use .env file to store the database setting) in /app/config/database.php
   
   'mysql' => array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => 'localhost', 'database' => 'auction', 'username' => 'root', 'password' => 'XXX', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci', 'prefix' => '', ),

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   'mysql' => array(     'driver'    => 'mysql',     'host'      => 'localhost',     'database'  => 'auction',     'username'  => 'root',     'password'  => 'XXX',     'charset'   => 'utf8',     'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',     'prefix'    => '', ),

   
    
6. generate the new key
   
   php artisan key:generate

   1	php artisan key:generate

   
    
7. set file permission to 777 for /app/storage
   
   teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel/fotista$ sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage/

   1	teddy@teddy-K43SJ:~/Documents/works/laravel/fotista$ sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage/

   
    
8. Make some update on the database, especially for table ‘images’, I need to remove and replace ‘http:\\/\\/localhost\\/auction\\/public\\/uploads\\/’ in ‘images’ field because I just need the image name. No need the url. With this I can show the product image and the thumbnails. I did the replace in my text editor geany instead of on phpmyadmin because it’s easier to do it in geany. Also modified a few files to display the images and the thumbnails properly:
   in /app/views/home.blade.php, replace  ‘$product -> thumbnail’ to ‘{{ URL::to( ‘uploads/’ .  $product -> thumbnail) }}’ (TWICE) like this
   
   <img src="{{ URL::to( 'uploads/' . $product -> thumbnail) }}" />

   1	<img src="{{ URL::to( 'uploads/' .  $product -> thumbnail) }}" />

   
   Also the same for /app/views/store.blade.php and /app/views/auction.blade.php. Same also for /app/views/product.blade.php BUT at ‘$product -> large’ like this:
   
   <img src="{{ URL::to( 'uploads/' . $product -> large) }}" />

   1	<img src="{{ URL::to( 'uploads/' .  $product -> large) }}" />

   
   Also the same for ‘admin’ page: /app/views/admin/products.blade.php, /app/views/admin/product.blade.php, /app/views/admin/auction.blade.php.
9. Open it http://localhost/works/laravel/fotista/public/The admin page http://localhost/works/laravel/fotista/public/admin/
   http://localhost/works/laravel/fotista/public/admin/products
10. SOME ERRORS & SOLUTION:
    The first time, I got this error:
    
    Error in exception handler.

    1	Error in exception handler.

    
    SOLUTION: It because I forgot to set the file permission at #7 (ref:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24982598/laravel-error-in-exception-handler)
    NOTE: To get better debug environment, I need to set ‘debug’ to ‘true’ in /app/config/app.php!
    
    'debug' => true,

    1	'debug' => true,

    
    After that I got another error:
    
    Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

    1	Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

    
    SOLUTION: That because I forgot to set a new key like at #6 (ref:http://laravel.io/forum/04-22-2014-whoops-looks-like-something-went-wrong-with-new-installation)
    NOTE: For laravel 4, No need to create .env file like laravel 5
    Then I got another error:
    
    Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO)

    1	Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO)

    
    SOLUTION: I forgot to set the database setting in /app/config/database.php like at #5 (ref: http://laravel.io/forum/07-02-2014-sqlstatehy000-1044-access-denied-for-user-localhost-to-database-forge?page=1)

UNSOLVED ERROR:
When I tried to click ‘Auction started click here to open it’. It didn’t work. It did open a new page but do nothing. Just printed ‘Loading…’. From the console, it’s looking for a file in http://localhost/works/laravel/fotista/public/api/auction BUT THERE IS NO /public/api/auction DIR AVAILABLE!
The controller responsible for this is /app/controller/AuctionController.php, The view is /app/views/auction-app.blade.php and the javascript file in /public/js/auction-app.js
HOW TO MAKE THE AUCTION FULLY WORKS???? ESPECIALLY THE ANGULAR JS ‘auction-app.js’???
PLS TRY THIS GITHUB: https://github.com/yervand951/angular-auction
CONVERT TO LARAVEL 5 ???? ref: https://mattstauffer.co/blog/upgrading-from-laravel-4-to-laravel-5 and https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/upgrade.