1. Student portal & web applications
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater Web Dev

2. Web portal overview http://reslife.uww.edu/studentportal/login.php
Built on Laravel (PHP Framework) and Bootstrap 3
Necessity to
move into a mobile friendly platform
Standardize the way code is implemented
Too much turnover because of student workers
Preston

3. Laravel framework http://laravel.com/ MVC Standard way of doing things
Most documentation and reviews of PHP frameworks
Easy to implement with Composer
Composer pulls all necessary packages into vendor a vendor folder of application
Allows code to be moved to any server once it is setup because code is all pulled in locally
Composer is a PHP dependency manager
Pulls everything that is necessary for your project into the vendor folder
Once composer is run locally everything that is necessary for the project is there meaning that the project can be moved to any web server and still run

4. Uadmin Bootstrap and responsiveness
UAdmin Theme : Pre-formatted content
Bootstrap creates innate responsiveness
Fully responsive web necessary as web traffic goes mobile
Josh

5. Web Traffic analytics
Josh

6. View AppController [App]Controller [App]Model GlobalModel
Each application has a view
The AppController is setup as a RESTful controller starting with the apps prefix. This means that when you navigate to ip/studentportal/public/apps/[app] a get or post function is run from the AppController that eventually will build the view that is seen.
Each application has a post and a get function in the AppController.
Then each application has its own controller. Each [App]Controller must implement a VarsToView and a save function.
VarsToView returns an associative array that gets passed to the view. This is necessary for any info that needs to be loaded in the view right away
The key for the associative array is used as the variable in the view
Save runs any functions necessary to save submitted information to the database
Each application has an [App]Model. This is where all of the

7. AODA Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Programs Application for Advocates
Student Workers
Presentations in Residence Halls
Recruiting for other Student Workers
Separate from Job Application system because it was created later than that application
Easy application to convert from old Student Portal to new Student Portal
Preston

8. Bike Lockers Place for students to store bike
Limited number of ideal spots on campus
164 Bike Lockers on campus
3,936 students that live on campus
Direct copy of paper business process
Flexible/Easy to maintain therefore easy to copy from old to new Student Portal
Application that will be redone in the future
Trevor

9. Notifications Students expect notifications
Similar to Facebook or other Social Media sites
Easy way to remind students and staff that there is something to do
Keeps students and staff interacting with application
Trevor

10. Starin Application and FPDF/FPDI
FPDF PHP Library - creates PDFs with PHP
FPDI PHP Library – allows you to write on existing PDFs using PHP
- FPDF Source Files
-FPDI Source Files
Starin Application
Starin is a suite style dormitory
Uses a point system to determine who is accepted into the dorm
Points based on
Number of semesters in the halls
Number of earned UW-W credits
Current Starin Hall residents will receive 15 points for each semester they lived in Starin Hall
Josh

11. Express check-in
It is a necessity to have contact information and vaccination information for every student that lives on campus
Combination of Contact Information and Vaccination Info
Uses classes built for the two separate apps for code reuse
Grouped into one application because every student needs to do this in order to move into the dorms
Easier to do both from one application rather than navigate to two separate applications
Preston

12. Documentation PHP Documentor 2 www.phpdoc.org Very similar to Java Doc
Another way to deal with worker turnover
Uses Comment blocks called DocBlocks
DocBlocks for
File
Class
Class Variables
Methods/Functions

13. Documentation continued
All DocBlocks have a common structure
Description followed by tags
28 different tags but we only use
@param
Type and description of function parameters
@return
Type and description of what is returned by a function
@todo
Allows someone to put in a description of something that needs to be done
@package
Used to categorize different classes into logical subdivisions
@var
Type and description of any class variables

14. Documentation continued
Very simple to run
php phpdoc.php –d /var/www/studentportal/app –t /var/www/studentportal/documentation - -template=“responsive-twig”
-d is the folder that the documentor looks in to parse the comment blocks
-t is the destination folder for where it creates html pages that contain the documentation

15. Wrap Up and Questions
Questions?