Welcome to the Blood Bucket, a platform designed to facilitate blood donation and save lives. This Readme provides essential information for users.

• User Registration: Users can create accounts, complete profiles, and manage their donation or blood-receiving history.

• Search and Donation Matching: Find blood matches with donors based on blood type and location.

• Educational Resources: Access information on the importance of blood donation and health benefits.

To run this system locally, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/charlie0x01/blood-bucket.git

2. Find the .env.example file in the root of the project and rename this file to .env

3. Navigate into your project in the terminal and run composer install to install dependencies.

4. Install dependencies: npm install

5. You must create your database on your server and on your .env file to update the following lines.

   DB_CONNECTION=mysql
   DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
   DB_PORT=3306
   DB_DATABASE=homestead
   DB_USERNAME=homestead
   DB_PASSWORD=secret
   

6. Artisan Commands The first thing we are going to do is set the key that Laravel will use when doing encryption. php artisan key:generate

7. run php artisan migrate to create database tables

8. run php artisan db:seed to fill the database with demo credentials

9. run npm run dev

10. Storage:link After your project is installed you must run this command to link your public storage folder for user avatar uploads:

php artisan storage:link

11. run php artisan serve to run the project.

Admin: [email protected]
Password: secret

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