joehossam / elfarouk-task

El-Farouk Technical Task using Laravel

This application is about optimizing the upload of huge xlxs files.

How to install

You can install the application by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the desired location on your computer
2. Open the command prompt and run git clone https://github.com/JoeHossam/elfarouk-task.git
3. Navigate to the project folder by running cd .\elfarouk-task\
4. Create a new database from the file attached elfarouk-task.sql

   NOTE: make sure the database runs on port 3306 or simply change it in the .env file.

5. Run composer update, to install all the required packages for this project

   NOTE: make sure you have gd extension enabled in your php.ini file, you can search for extension=gd in your php.ini file and uncomment it.

6. Run php artisan serve, to start the server

How to run:

1. After the server has started navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/import.
2. There is a simple form where you can upload a file and submit to insert its data into the database.

   NOTE: The application expects the file to has 3 columns; name, email and phone. There is also file testingData which already includes 20 thousands records.

3. When the app finishes, you will see a simple json message records successfully uploaded and the excution time, that is when everything has finished succefully.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

php artisan serve

Runs the app in the development mode.