Joeoh / insightful

Repo for Software Engineering Group Project

Insightful

Web Application for analysing online review sentiment using Azure Cognitive Services API

Contributors

Project Manager: Joe O'Hara

Back-End Team	Charting Team	Front-End Team
GC	JCZ	RMM
Joe O'Hara	CK	Rob Cooney

Installation Instructions

This web application can be installed like any other Laravel web app. The basic steps are:

• Set up a new virtual host and set the web root to /public in this repo.
• Setup up the required .htaccess or Nginx config
• Import the database included in the repo
• Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the required fields
• Install dependancies with php composer install

Importing new reviews

To pull in the latest reviews for a business the scrapers must be called. This can be done by setting up a Cron job for an appropriate time (daily) to run the command php artisan scrape A cronjob must also be setup for parsing php artisan parse

Requirements

• PHP 7
• Cron Job Access
• Database