What we have here is an incomplete export system based on a small set of student data. The mission, if you choose to accept it, is to fill in the missing parts and finish the application to the best of your ability.
How you do this is completely down to you. We have only provided the bare bones. There is no right or wrong, however we don't want you to rely on a third party csv package, or use the fputcsv function. For testability and maintainability, it is preferrable that your logic is writting in dedicated classes, rather than controllers.
Although this is a relatively small task we believe there is enough here for you to be able to demonstrate your ability to follow good coding practices and show your understanding of PHP and the Laravel framework. Our products require features to be backed up by tests (unit and integration) so please provide suitable PHPUnit tests. We use Vue.js for our frontend JS so any enhancements to the UI with Vue would be great to see. The task is written using Laravel 5.4, so be sure to check the older documentation, if you are stuck.
Oh and there may be some 'deliberate' errors in our code, which require fixing... Enjoy.
- Set up PHP 7, Composer and Sqlite3 or MySQL 5.7.* on your local environment.
git clone https://github.com/RMPEnterprise/php-developer-task.gitcomposer install- The task includes a populated sqlite database, but you may prefer to use mySql, in which case you will need to change .env and run
php artisan migrate --seed php artisan serve --port=8003- Visit
http://127.0.0.1:8003
- Don't rely on a third party csv package or
fputcsvfunction - Clear separation of concerns
- PHPUnit tests for the success and failure scenarios
- Explain your decisions through comments or a readme etc
- PSR-2 compilant code.
- Consideration of data security (included is only dummy data, however).
- For testability and maintainability, it is preferrable that your logic is writting in dedicated classes, rather than controllers.
- Tested code
- Render the table of students
- Export a CSV file of selected students when clicking on the export buttons
- Give the exported CSV file a name
- View export history
If time allows and you want to really impress us, please consider adding the following additional functionality.
- TDD
- handling 200K+ students to export
- Search the table
- Sort the table
- download a previous export from history
If there are any critical issues please contact [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].