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From this version I learnt responsive frontend design and how to use MVC frameworks such as Laravel, Ruby on Rails, etc to quickly develop sites multi-page sites.

This is a reworked version the my final project in DM2517 XML for Publishing. It has been completely rebuilt using Laravel. It was previously built with vanilla PHP and is available in another repo KTH-XMLForPublishing.

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Requirements

• Homebrew
• Node
• Bower
• PHP +7.0
• pdo-pgsql module for PHP
• Grunt-CLI
• Postgresql

Installing requirements

// Homebrew
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

// Node
$ brew install node

// Bower
$ npm install -g bower

// PHP +7.0
$ brew tap homebrew/dupes
$ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
$ brew install php70

// pdo-pgsql
$ brew install php70-pdo-pgsql

// Grunt-CLI
$ npm install -g grunt-cli

// Postgresql
$ brew install postgresql

Remember to change php5_module in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to

LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php70/libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

First-time setup

// into cd /my-kth-blog
$ createdb my-kth-blog
$ php artisan migrate
$ bower install
$ npm install
$ composer install