NoBrainer

NoBrainer is an online real-time quiz application written in PHP & NodeJS. It's built with Laravel & Socket.io.

It's goal is to be:

• Simple, it's easy to use & packed full of features
• Powerful, Everything is in real-time, host unlimited quizzes for unlimited users.
• Responsive, a mobile focused UI optimised for touch devices, with an included dedicated mobile app!

System Requirements

NoBrainer is currently in development, so please expect bugs and potential unexpected behaviour.

• PHP >= 7.1.3
• NodeJS >= 8.10.0
• Redis >= 3.0.5
• MySQL >= 5.5
• Composer
• NPM
• Currently tested on Apache & NGINX

Once you have successfully installed all of NoBrainer's dependencies you can move on to the installation steps.

Installation

Clone the repository to your local machine

$ git clone https://github.com/NoBrainerQuiz/web.git NoBrainer

$ cd NoBrainer

Create .env and enter details

$ cp .env.example .env

Install dependencies

$ composer install && npm install

Run migrations, seed database and starting the server

$ php artisan migrate

$ php artisan db:seed

If using the laravel server run

$ php artisan serve

**Configure MySQL***

Download a MySQL server.
Make the database by doing: create database nobrainer;

Setting up your .env file and MySQL

Make sure all of the settings are the same in your file:

BROADCAST_DRIVER=redis

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=nobrainer
DB_USERNAME=<username you made when installing MySQL>
DB_PASSWORD=<password you made when installing MySQL>

Open the file /app/Sockets/database.js and set the username and password for the MySQL to the same as above.

Starting Sockets and Redis (Redis needs installing beforehand)

$ redis-server

$ node socket

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/pin and enter 9876, then enter your desired username.

Then to start the quiz go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/quiz/start/9876 (on a seperate browser)

Brief Installation video by UP805717: https://youtu.be/rxy6xUXWi68 (Youtube Link)

Development Team