Show and Tell: NextChapter.com.hk - SG PHP User Group

About how we developed a crowdfunding website using Laravel 5
Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_SBNaECv2U

Transcript

1. ARALOVELACE.COM Female Crowdfunding Website
2. ARALOVELACE.COM Hi! I’m April 20-something years old Project Manager - 8 months Web Developer - 6 years I do yoga as well :D
3. About FunctionEight www.functioneight.com What We Do: Outsourced IT Support IT Infrastructure Web & Mobile Development Hosting Singapore | Hong Kong | Shanghai | New Zealand
4. ARALOVELACE.COM Projects I done with
5. ARALOVELACE.COM Next Chapter is a funding portal for female entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses. it’s focus is on businesses by women, creating products and services that women will love.
6. ARALOVELACE.COM us. Nicole Denholder FunctionEight Charlotte Fernandez
7. Successfully Funded Campaigns
8. ARALOVELACE.COM My HK Vehicles Book Project By: Elise Phillipson Target: US$2,800 Funded: US$3,516 70 Backers
9. ARALOVELACE.COM Zarie Slimming Leggings Project By: Stephanie Poon Target: US$15,000 Funded: US$16,333 131 Backers
10. How Next Chapter Works?
12. ARALOVELACE.COM Process on creating campaign • Register an account • Activate account • Create campaign • Submit for review • Admin either approves or rejects your campaign for editing
13. ARALOVELACE.COM Process on creating campaign • When approved, campaign owner will update the campaign and add more details. • Submit for Final Review • Admin approves/reject campaign • If Approve, campaign is now running
15. ARALOVELACE.COM How to pledge ✤ Register as member ✤ Login as member ✤ Facebook Login ✤ As Guest
16. ARALOVELACE.COM Current Payment Process • redirect to paypal • Pay to Next Chapter • payment completed • redirect back to page
17. ARALOVELACE.COM When the campaign ends…
18. The Development…
19. ARALOVELACE.COM Technology • Plesk 12.0.18 • Symantec GeoTrust - SSL • Sumome • Mailchimp - Newsletter • Facebook API • PHP/MySQL • Laravel 5 • Sass • Bitbucket • DeploymentHQ
20. ARALOVELACE.COM Designed Database
21. ARALOVELACE.COM Designed UI / User Experience
22. ARALOVELACE.COM Project Management
23. ARALOVELACE.COM Developed Backend
24. ARALOVELACE.COM Why we selected Laravel? and not…
25. ARALOVELACE.COM So why Laravel? WHY NOT? fresh and young fit excellent community good relationship we tried it and we love it
26. ARALOVELACE.COM Why we selected Laravel? 1. Flexibility: MVC Layering Eloquent ORM
27. ARALOVELACE.COM Why we selected Laravel? 1. Flexibility Blade Engine
28. ARALOVELACE.COM Why we selected Laravel? 1. Flexibility Controller
29. ARALOVELACE.COM Why we selected Laravel? 2. Powerful Tools - Database Migration and Seeding 3. Routing system 4. Very well documented
30. ARALOVELACE.COM Some Laravel Vendors Used • Mail chimp • Folklore Image • Paypal - Rest API SDK PHP • Socialite - facebook login
31. ARALOVELACE.COM Future Updates • Update Payment Method thru Paypal • More Payment Option Gateways • User Experience Improvements • Functionality Enhancements
32. ARALOVELACE.COM suggestions… We are open to suggestions on how to improve the website. www.nextchapter.com.hk
33. ARALOVELACE.COM thanks. Get in touch. Email: araphoenix@gmail.com Linkedin: aprilkwong Blog: aralovelace.com