Coding Challenge

This site is a completion of a coding challenge.

Of note, the site displays a list of employees, their boss' name, and the distance from the CEO.

In addition to the main challenge:

• The site uses DataTables to display the results
• Lets users page through the results
• Lets users sort the columns

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Files of Note

• app/Http/Controllers/ChallengeController.php
  • This file holds the bulk of the application. Within this file are two functions:
    • index() which gathers the employees to render, loops through them and determines the distance from the CEO by calling:
    • getDistance() traverses an associative array connecting employee to boss until the CEO is reached and returning the number of levels travelled.
• app/Employee.php
  • This file extends the Laravel Eloquent class and wraps up the sql statement to get the employees in a simple, fluent format.
• public/js/app.js
  • Created the DataTable table. The array of employees created in the ChallengeController is passed into javascript with a special Laravel class where this file passed uses it in the DataTable options array. I'm doing it this way as a blank screen on initial load is perferable to a screen that jumps about when the table renders.
• resouces/views/index.blade.php
  • This is the html file that is rendered when accessing the page