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#Test exercise for Creditstar Group

As a very first shortlisting procedure of candidates, we have set up a test exercise that the interested applicants are executing.

We assume that interested applicants would be able to complete the test within a few days.

Once the test is completed please forward the results to [e-mail].

Setup

Install Docker https://www.docker.com/get-started

Update your vendor packages

docker-compose run --rm php composer update --prefer-dist

Run the installation triggers (creating cookie validation code)

docker-compose run --rm php composer install    

Start the container

docker-compose up -d

Run database migration (creating tables)

docker-compose run --rm php yii migrate    
docker-compose run --rm php tests/bin/yii migrate    

You can then access the application through the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1:8000

Database

The database consists of two tables created for you loan and user. Each User can have multiple Loans. Each loan must have a User.

Assignment

You need to create a webapp that provides:

1. Viewing, adding, editing and removing Loans and Users in the database. User's input must be validated.

   • https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/start-forms
   • https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/input-forms

2. Listing out all the Loans and Users (pagination, filtering, and sorting).

   • https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/output-data-providers
   • https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/output-data-widgets

3. There are two JSON files in the root folder of the project ( users.json and loans.json ) with predefined loans and users.

   You must import that data into the database programmatically. For example, create a console script that imports the file or use a migration

4. Write a method to get user age from user personal code.

   All supplied personal codes are in Estonian personal code format. Display user age in user view.

5. Style of the page should be based on recruitment.png file that is included with the project under root.

   Use Bootstrap available functionalities as much as you can. Bonus for responsiveness ( rather mandatory ) and SCSS usage. Ubuntu font should be used.

6. Write a test case to test if your user age calculation method returns correct age and test if user is allowed to apply for a loan (user is not underage).

   Run this command to execute tests:

   docker-compose run --rm php codecept run
   

Once the assignment is done upload to a public git repository (github, bitbucket)

Evaluation Criteria

• Is every feature working

• Use as much Yii 2 built-in features. For layout use Bootstrap which comes with Yii2 OOTB (feel free to use Foundation 6 instead of Bootstrap)

• MVC usage

• Using models ( keyword here is Yii's built-in tool Gii for creating them from database tables), views and controllers correctly.

  • http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/ext-gii-index.html
  • http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-structure-overview.html

• Code legibility

• Git usage. How commits are created and commented. We want to see the process of the work

• Finished code should be possible to deploy and run the same way as described in Setup section

Should any technical questions arise feel free to contact: [e-mail]