Working Rules for this project.

Name: Abdullah Numan Shakil
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Rajshahi.

1. Create a laravel project with the following command:

    php artisan create-project laravel/laravel project-name

2. Configure the .env file such as renaming the database name, if the key is not generated, use the following command:

    php artisan key:generate

3. Now migrate the initial migration provided with the laravel project:

    php artisan migrate

4. Now create a migration for the books table which is associated with the Book Model by default.

    php artisan make:migration create_books_table

5. Now configure the migration file as the table schema is defined such as:

    Schema::create('books', function (Blueprint $table) {
                    $table->id();
                    $table->string('title');
                    $table->string('author');
                    $table->string('isbn');
                    $table->float('price');
                    $table->integer('available');
                    $table->timestamps();
            });

6. Now migrate the create_books_table migration provided with the laravel project:

    php artisan migrate

7. Now there is no data in the books table, we have to use a factory and seeder to auto generate some data using the faker package.
   a. For the factory, use the following command:

           php artisan make:factory BookFactory --model=Book
   

   b. Then define the faker properties in the definition function:

   return [
               'title' => fake()->name(),
               'author' => fake()->unique()->name(),
               'isbn' => fake()->isbn13(),
               'price' => fake()->randomFloat(2, 10, 1000), // (no. of digits, min. max)
               'available' => fake()->numberBetween(0,10),
           ];
   

   c. Then create a seeder such as BookSeeder:

           php artisan make:seeder BookSeeder
           \App\Models\Book::factory(100)->create();
   

   d. Call the BookSeeder class from the DatabaseSeeder class:

   $this->call(BookSeeder::class);

   e. Now run the seeder with the following command:

   php artisan db:seed
   

8. Now create a Model for example Book with the following command:

    php artisan make:model Book

9. Now create the controller BookController associated with the Book model by the following command

    php artisan make:controller BookController –model=Book

10. Now we have to define the route in which we want to see the book list, by configuring the routes/web.php file.

   use App\Http\Controllers\BookController;
   Route::get('/books',[BookController::class, 'index'])->name('books.index');

11. Now we have to configure the index function of the BookController class for showcasing all the book lists.

12. Configure the App\Providers\appServiceProvider class to enable bootstrap pagination:

    \Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator::useBootstrap();
    Use books->links() to implement it after the table.