Laravel 8 Complete Movie Review and Recommendation System

This repository is for a movie review and recommendation system built with Laravel 8. This application allows users to review movies they've watched, rate them, and view recommendations based on the ratings of other users. The application fetches movie data from The Movie Database API.

Authors

• Patrick Orjieh
• Robert Nugent

Requirements

• PHP 7.3 or higher
• Node 12.13.0 or higher
• Composer
• MySql

Usage

Setting up your development environment on your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/RobertNugent04/ServerSideCA3.git
cd ServerSideCA3
cp .env.example .env
composer install
php artisan key:generate
php artisan cache:clear && php artisan config:clear
php artisan serve

Before starting

Create a database

mysql
create database laravelblog;
exit;

Setup your database credentials in the .env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravelblog
DB_USERNAME={USERNAME}
DB_PASSWORD={PASSWORD}

Migrate the tables

php artisan migrate

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to report bugs, suggest features, or even contribute to the code. To contribute, you can create a pull request, and we will review your changes before merging them into the project.

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank The Movie Database API for providing us with the movie data used in this application.