jaidtw / opinionate

A voting site project for database course

Opinionate

We are tired of those stringent options of voting systems today, so we decided to make our owns. Opinionate is a voting system site built on Laravel. It supports various option types, anonymity of users, time-sensitive or privacy-concerned topics.

Deployment

First, use Laravel to create a new app.

laravel new opinionate

After it, remember to configure .env for database connection settings.

Then, set up the git repository to fetch.

git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/jaidTw/Opinionate.git
git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master

Or you can just download the archive and replace the original files.

Then do the database migration.

php artisan migrate

Todo

• createTopic.blade.php
  • question sets and options number constraint.
    • trigger error by the number of DOM elements.
  • rewrite post with jQuery iterator
• TopicController@store
  • add close_at validation
  • qs and opt number validation
  • may perform question set number checking
• TopicController@update
  • qs and opt number validation
  • may perform question set number checking
• Improve Landing Page
• User dashboard
• More friendly validation error message.
• Replace pure sql statements with Eloquent ORM after demo
• Improve i18n + zh-tw l10n

License

The MIT License

opinionate's Issues

Delete Topic Cancellation

Bug: The "Cancel" button in "Delete Topic" modal does not function properly. Instead of closing the modal, it still allows the cancellation to go through.

Fix: (Line 191 of /resources/views/showTopic.blade.php) add data-dismiss="modal" attribute to the button tag.

將close_at從question sets移動到topics

議題似乎設定統一的投票截止時間較佳。

Things to do about end time

1. In showTopic.balde.php, if end time is passed, it should show "Ended" instead of the actually time,
   and should forbid the edit operations, i.e. If end time is passed, front-end has to hide all edit buttons, and back-end should added end time checking part for edit operations.
2. Also, currently there is no control for the VISIBLE_AFTER_ENDED option, needed to perform time checking in both back-end and front-end.
3. For INVISIBLE, check is only performed in back-end now, and it will cause an error TypeError: data.all_ballots is undefined in the front-end, although the ballots is not showing indeed. This can be fix with 2 together.

Question Set的新增與移除

新增/移除Question Set會導致key的變動，現行依賴於DOM元素編號的code會失效。

artisan的migration reset

若沒有經過php artisan make:migration來新增migration，reset無法正常運作，若更改了migration的檔案名稱也會導致問題。

Simple Mockup Logo Design and Favicon Implementation

We can use a simple logo in place of favicon. Something like a vote stamp symbol. I'm thinking about the Taiwan voting stamp design, the one that looks like world peace symbol with one leg missing.

Add markdown for description

There might be some available markdown renderer.

zh-TW l10n

d9aeac0 set up the text currently needed to be translated in resources/lang/zh-TW/views.php but needs more work on translating the rest of the text. More texts to be localized are expected when the dashboard design is complete.

Pagination Troubles

Because we use raw query, the pagination is bit tricky. I put together a way to get it working but it's far from ideal. There must be something I'm missing.

Homepage Design

I'm thinking about using a plain simple one

favicon is not transparent

As title.

移除Visualization

現在的設計方式，預計設定了Visualization後就只有固定的視覺化方式，
或許可以考慮移除此限制，單純在前端提供不同資料視覺化的選項。