The purpose of the exercise is to see how comfortable you are with a Laravel based interactive console app. We have done a bit of work for you. If you use this template project to make a new repository, clone the project to your local, run composer install, and then run php artisan qanda:interactive, the command will be started. In this command, create an event loop and implement the following features:
- The initial interaction should allow you to choose between adding questions and answers and viewing previously entered answers.
To make the PHP and MySQL installation easier, we have included a docker-compose file that runs a
MySQL DB and a PHP container. To use it, run docker-compose up -d in the project folder, then use
docker exec -it <name_of_php_container> sh to enter the PHP container.
There is no requirement whatsoever to use this system, it is only included for your ease of use.
- Upon choosing the option to add a question, the user will be prompted to give a question and the answer to that question.
- Upon giving a question and answer, this must be stored in the database. Use migrations to create the DB tables.
- Upon choosing to view the questions, the user will be prompted to choose from the previously given questions which one he wants to practice.
- Upon choosing to practice a question, the user must fill in the right answer for the question, which will be checked against the previously given answer.
- Upon answering a question, the user is returned to the list of all questions, and sees his progress for each question.
- Upon completing all questions, an overview of the users final progress is given.
- We strongly prefer saving the users' progress in the DB.
- Every step must have an option to go back one step.
- Use the DB, and use Laravel best practices to approach it.
- Allow the user to exit the interactive console with an option at every point.
- Make a new console command to be run with
php artisan qanda:resetthat removes all previous progresses. - Write tests.