PHPDeveloper Test

Background

Demonstrate your skills using a varied range of technologies our company commonly uses.

We’ll be assessing task completeness, as well as code quality.

Publish it to the Github when finished. Include any instructions, or notes, or parts you wish to highlight. Feel free to demonstrate any additional knowledge or skills you have, where applicable to the task.

EstimatedTime

3 hours

SkillsTested

Primary

• PHP (Laravel)
• Vue.js
• HTML
• GIT: Commit your work to a local Git repository within your working folder as you finish logical parts of the task. Include the .git folder. Our company follows a commit early/commit often mantra.

Bonus (optional)

• Element UI: Use element-ui to style the frontend section.

Tasks

API

Using the provided CSV data, create an API route using Laravel that allows the data to be searched.

The data should be converted to a database table. Provide Laravel migrations and seeders within the project.

The API should search on:

• Name: Should also match on partial names
• Bedrooms: Exact match
• Bathrooms: Exact match
• Storeys: Exact match
• Garages: Exact match
• Price: Range (between $X and $Y)

All search parameters should be optional, we should be able to search for 2 bedroom houses, or 4 bedroom and 2 bathroom houses, etc.

The API should return JSON, with pure numeric data (not HTML content).

**Frontend (Search Form) **

Create a basic search form that will query the API using AJAX and display the results it receives from the backend. The searching result should be rendering to HTML table dynamically on the frontend, using reactive Vue.js

There should be some sort of searching indicator, a spinning icon or similar.

A message should be displayed if no results were found.

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The recommended PHP version for Laravel 9 is PHP 8.0 or later.

For Apache, version 2.4 or later is recommended.

For MySQL, version 5.7 or later is recommended. However, you can also use MariaDB as an alternative to MySQL.

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INSTALL

1. Clone the repository using Git "git clone"
2. Set up the database: Laravel requires a database to store data. You can configure the database settings in the .env file located in the root directory of your Laravel project. You need to set the DB_CONNECTION, DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, and DB_PASSWORD variables in the .env file to match your database configuration.
3. Generate a new application key "php artisan key:generate"
4. Migrate the database "php artisan migrate"
5. Seed the database with default data "php artisan db:seed"
6. Install Node.js dependencies "npm install"
7. Build the assets npm run dev OR npm run build
8. Serve the aplication "php artisan serve"