BLOOD SEEKER

Easy Search for Blood Donors

What is Blood Seeker?

• Blood Seeker is a web application wherein people/users can easily locate specified blood types in specific hospitals and donors.

PREREQUISITE

• Install VS CODE (Please install the following from the extensions tab in VS CODE):

  • Jupyter
  • Python
  • Prettier
    • For Formatting Purposes.
    • To run Prettier:

      Ctrl + Shift + P - > Format Document

    • Remember: Always run Prettier after editing HTML and CSS files

• Install XAMPP 8.0.5 / PHP 8.0.5

• Install Github Desktop

  • Login to your github account.

CLONE THIS PROJECT

1. Fork this project first:
   • Please see this Image.
2. Open Github Desktop and Clone the Repository that you cloned:

   File -> Clone Repository -> URL

Project Setup

1. Create a new database in phpMyAdmin

   • Database Name: dbbloodseeker

2. Open the project in VS Code(bloodseeker-django0

   • Right Click bloodseeker-django and click Open with Code
   • After opening in VS Code, your file tree will look like this:

|-- bloodseeker-django
  |-- bloodseeker
  |-- static
  |-- user
  |-- manage.py
  |-- README.md

3. Open VS Code Terminal

   Ctrl + `

   Enter the commands below:

pip install django

pip install mysqlclient

python manage.py migrate

4. Create SuperUser(using the terminal): python manage.py createsuperuser

   Enter the details below:

username: admin password: admin123456

Run Project

1. Open XAMPP Control Panel

   Apache -> Start MySQl -> Start

2. Run the project in the VS Code terminal: python manage.py runserver

3. Open the project in your web browser:

   127.0.0.1:8000/user/login

   127.0.0.1:8000/user/register

   127.0.0.1:8000/admin