#About Digital Library:

An online book store app that has two parts: back end and front end.

##Admin Area:

Is where the book store is administered

Admin Area Features:

Add/update/delete Books, Authors, Publishers, Categories, Admin Users, Admin Roles
View requests for books
Issue/return of books

Books:

Add/update/delete books
    Currently, a book can have only one author, category, and publisher

Authors, Publishers and Categories:

Add/update/delete

Issues:

View a list of books issued to the members
Delete an issue by flagging it returned

Requests:

View a list of requests for books from members
Issue a book to the respective user thereby removing it from the request list

Admin Users:

Are those that administer the system
Belong to roles that can be defined by the master admin user (the omnipotent user of the system)
Can carry out activities as per the access rights assigned to the roles they belong to 
    - Uses Zizaco/entrust package 

The system automatically creates the folowing admin users: "admin@example.com" with the password: "password"
    The omnipotent user in the system
    Has access to the entire system

"librarian@example.com" with the password: "password"
    This user has restricted access rights to the system

Members:

Are the public users of the system

Roles:

Roles determine the activities that can be performed by a user in the system

The system comes with the following roles:
    admin
        Omnipotent
        admin@example.com user belongs to this role

    librarian
        Less powerful than admin
        Has restricted access to the backend
        librarian@example.com user belongs to this role

    member
        Public users of the system

##Front end:

Is the frontend of the application that will be used by members

Members can:
    View the books catalog
    Add books to the request cart
    Checkout the books thereby sending a request to the backend
        Only registered users can send request for books

Installtion:

Clone the project in a web-accessible folder(e.g., htdocs in XAMPP)
Install the composer packages
  composer install
Create the dl_laravel database(the app uses mysql, by default)
Run the database migrations 
  php artisan migrate
Copy the .env.example file to .env and make appropriate changes
Browse the app