Competition deploy document

How to install

1. Install Composer and then install Laravel and Git on your server if you haven't already
2. Clone this repository on your server by running this command: git clone https://github.com/ssssssander/competition.git
3. Create a .env file in your project root folder based on the .env.example file, also located in the project root folder. Make sure you fill in database info, mail info, admin info (remember to encapsulate your name in double quotes if it contains spaces), your app URL, your app key, whether or not you're running the project in production and anything else you may want to add
4. Run composer install in your project root folder to install all the Composer dependencies
5. Run php artisan migrate:refresh --seed in your project root folder to set up your admin account and default terms
6. If you wish to change the default terms, enter the website and log in using your admin credentials and edit the terms in the dashboard
7. Run crontab -e (or nano /etc/crontab) and add this Cron entry to the end of the file to set up the Laravel scheduler and start the competition: * * * * * php /path-to-your-project/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Additional info

• The kris/laravel-form-builder and laravelcollective/html dependencies are vital to this project, don't remove them
• When a term ends an email will be sent to the admin email address notifying them of the term ending
• Every day at midnight an email will be sent to the admin email address with an Excel file attached containing all the participants on the previous day
• When you remove a participant, the row is soft deleted
• When you press the reset button all participants will be hard deleted, terms will be reset to the default, the current term will revert back to 1, and any winners will be removed from all terms. This will essentially give you a clean slate, use with caution
• When you edit the terms, the current term will be reverted to 1 and any winners will be removed from all terms
• Remember to never make your .env file publicly available