A simple tool to search Finnish towns and their population. Project is unfinished on purpose and the intention is for developers to fork the project and complete it.
- Symfony 2
- Composer package management
- Git version control
Fork this repository and implement the required features. The project basics and some initial routes are already implemented. The task is to search data from a .txt file and show it. The file has the following format:
zip code;town;population
The first column is the zip code, then the name of the town and the population. For example:
02920;Niipperi;5031
02940;Lippajärvi;10078
02970;Kalajärvi;3577
The app should allow searching of a town based on name or the zip code. The given town and it's population should be shown in the table, as well as the nearest N number of towns in population.
Bonus points are given for the following extra features:
- Implement functional / unit tests
- Implement separate settings page to set how many towns are shown in the table
- Visualize the table data somehow
- Add autocomplete to the search form
- Fork this repository using the Fork button on the top of the page.
- Clone your own fork to your local computer
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_ACCOUNT/challenge.git - Install/setup Composer package management (i.e. download the Composer.phar file to the project root folder).
- Refer to the Symfony 2 official homepage for Symfony 2 project setup.
- Run
php composer.phar installto install dependencies. - Run
php app/console assets:install --symlink webandphp app/console assetic:dumpto dump assets files.
That's it, try to access the application at http://localhost/challenge/web/app_dev.php (or app.php for production mode).
Please feel free to add the libraries that you need!
If you make changes to asset files (.css, .js), make sure to run php app/console assetic:dump. Alternatively, you can keep a watcher running with php app/console assetic:dump --watch.
To clear the cache (sometimes needed depending on the situation), run php app/console cache:clear --no-warmup. Usually you don't want to warm up the cache.
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Datasource: http://www.stat.fi/tup/posnro/vakiluku_posnro_2011.xls (Tilastokeskus: Väkiluku postinumeroalueittain 31.12.2011, XLS)