Accommo-Venient 🏠

* this is an old antiqued project along with its imperfections, it serves to showcase my coding journey as a milestone to look back at.

- an old group project from 2020,during my 2nd year 
  of college.
- i think by then i had not joined github, so my way 
  of version management was zipping files and giving 
  the zipfile names a time and date so i can know 
  when i last did changes haha😂.
- well to think it was "in an optimistic way" the same 
  way github handles repos, except its much more 
  efficient and does it in a distributed way.

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File structure

-/📂css           (css files)
-/📂design        (schema ERD and wireframe)
-/📂javascript    (vanilla js files)
-/📂jquery        (jquery js files)
-/📂media         (multimedia files)
-/📂n_php         
-/📂php           (php files | main codebase)
-/📂pictureDB     (images stored from user uploads)
-/📂resources     (website resources)
-/📄accommo_venientdb.sql    (SQL script | used MysqlDB)
-/📄*.html        (page html file)
-/📄Dockerfile    (dockerfile)
-/📄mysql.dockerfile    (mysql dockerfile) 
-/📄README.md     (readme doc) 

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Setting up project

1. Start an instance of MysqlDB or MariaDB server
2. Add the Accommo-Venient database by either doing so:
   1. Import and run the sql script /📄accommo_venientdb.sql
   2. Copy and run the database creation script in /📄accommo_venientdb.sql on line 22 to line 34
      1. Copy the remaining script-code and execute section by
         section with the help of comments to help with the
         sections and purpose of the script.
3. Make sure to match your db connection credentials with the coded credentials or change them in the following files inside the /📂php folder.

Filename	Line number
activation.php	15
filemanip.php	261
forgot-password.php	12
house-details.php	11
landlord-user.php	147
login.php	27
regular-user.php	136
search.php	30
trial.php	13

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Running the project

• Now that the setup is complete, you can now run the project
• You can use docker build and run the dockerfile ./📄Dockerfile or if you don't want to install the softwares manually
  • 👉 Make sure you have php installed or get it here [https://php.net] or [https://www.apachefriends.org/] .
• Inside the project's root folder / open your terminal and start the php server on a port of your choosing e.g on port 8080 we run the command

php -S localhost:8080

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Schema ERD

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*they are very good for use as reference books than reading from scratch, unless you're quite seasoned in the fine arts of programming.

*personally i do use them when coding since you cant memorize everything in a programming language unless its the only thing you code in and it doesn't get updated.

Story continuation

- arguably one of my most painful project (growth 
  pains) and best project in terms of experience, wow 
  and appreciation of development. This is where the 
  love for php, web development, design, css and 
  dynamic pages (using ajax) came from. 
- we couldn't complete when it was time for 
  submission due to scope creep and the 
  sheer excitement of what we could do and how 
  awesome it was, all the things we could do, all 
  the functions we could add to make it cool.
- For me personally it was like discovering a new 
  toy that could do all kinds of amazing stuff you 
  had not given thought to.

🆓 OSS GUI prototyping: [https://pencil.evolus.vn/]

*although these days im more into lunacy and figma, those days pencil was my first intro to wireframing, the experience was a nice and simple one.

- fast forward to 2023 and out of nostalgia this 
  project is still on my mind and ive decided to 
  upload it and add it to the list of projects on my 
  portfolio, showcasing where i came from and also a 
  good feel and boost of self confidence. i am proud 
  of this group project, i guess i really did come a 
  long way hehe.
- will now deploy it and try not to change the 
  source code to keep it in its 'antiqued' state 
  unless necessary.

*Link to the portfolio 🎁