Requirements - Task Manager

This was the task assignment:

You should create web application. This application should be simple task manager. Consisting of:

• Create Task
• Edit Task
• Report Time
• Close Task
• List Tasks

Your solution have to be JS based client. That communicates with PHP based backend. Over JSON based API (REST or REST like). This backend should write and read data from/to at least two persistent data storing layers based on configuration. Those layers have to have same access interface. One of those persistent layers have to be SQL database. Second persistent layer you are free to chose (not SQL database). Using OOP on LAMP architecture. No need for data validation only sanitize to avoid security risks.

You shouldn’t spent more than 8 hours on this test. Send us code in git repository. Including Readme file with deploy instructions and any data files necessary for deployment.

Result

The hard part was the eight hour limit - and I literally did not have more time anyway. I did not have enough hands-on experience with starting project with any "big" framework like Symfony at the time, so I decided to use Slim instead, and then I made more questionable choices along the way just to speed things up - e.g. I wrote my own DI container, while it would be better to use existing one, e.g. Pimple.

Setup on local computer

Dependencies:

• php 5.4 or newer, probably would run on 5.3 as well

• composer

• create conf/local.json file with {"environment": "devel"}

  • this file defines what environment config should be used
  • it would contain any passwords which must not be versioned in git

• redis - running on 127.0.0.1 without any authorization

• mysql - create database taskmanager and init it with sql/structure.sql

  • fill username/password to conf/local.ini (example in conf/config.json)

• to switch between storage imlementation use "taskStorageService":"redisTaskStorage" or "mysqlTaskStorage" in conf/local.json

• use decent browser, I believe first thing to break will be IE 8 and trailing commas in object literals, this can be fixed by using CoffeeScript (and it would get me plus point..)

• get composer dependencies (all commands below must run from project root):

  composer install --dev

• to run local server

  php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t www

• to run tests (it needs both mysql and redis, and it clears all data before run!)

  vendor/bin/phpunit

What would be my next steps if I had more time?

1. Maybe at least some styles?
2. pushState so that urls does not use fragments
3. code sniffer / linter for both php and js, minify js