About the project

CerGen is a web application which generates the certificates for the participants and send it to their corrosponding email. This application has the ability of generating the certificates for the participants who are participated in the event/contest. Also this application sends text message to the participants on their corrosponding phone number. This applicaion sends the certificate of participantion and certification of merit at the same time.

Features of the project

• Filter eligible participants.
• Choose templates for the certificate of participation/merit.
• Upload image of the participant receiving certificate.
• Upload images of the event album.
• Sends certificate to the individual participant.
• Downloads all generated certificates.

Technologies used

         

Getting Started

Setting Up Virtual Environment

• Clone the project

git clone git@github.com:SiddhantTotade/cergen.git

• Open the project in the terminal. The below command opens the project in vs-code but you can choose any editor

code .

• In the terminal type command to create a virtual environment. Prefer root directory for venv

  • The below command create a virtual environment in a specific directory

  python -m venv <name_of_venv>

  OR
   
  • The below command create a virtual envvironment in the current directory

  python -m venv .

• After creating venv, Activate it. Go to the directory in which the venv exists and type command

source bin/activate

• Deactivate the virtual environment.

deactivate

• Before installing the requirements.txt check if there is something exists or not. If the command shows nothing then nothing is installed yet

pip freeze

• After activating venv, install the requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting Up Application

• After enabling the venv, run the command for creating migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

• After creating the migrations of all the models, run command

python manage.py migrate

First - Running Django Server

• Change directory to app

cd app

• Run the django serever

python manage.py runserver

Second - Running React Server

• Now, open another terminal and change directory to cert_gen_sen_app_frontend

cd cert_gen_sen_app_frontend

• Inside react directory, run command to install node modules

npm install

• After installing node modules, start the react server

npm start

• Also you need to configure tailwind css for this project. Follow this guide to configure

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/guides/create-react-app

Important Notes

• Try to generate app password of gmail while sending certificates.

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