Str-Converter

Introduction

Simple string manipulator

No frameworks of any type have been used on this application although third-party libraries were incorporated to ease development load.

Before you begin I recommend you read about the basic building blocks that assemble the application:

Composer - The best way to understand PHP composer is through its Official Website, which has a Getting Started guide.
PHP - PHP's Official Website is a great starting point.

Make sure you have installed all of the following prerequisites on your development machine:

Git - Download & Install Git. OSX and Linux machines typically have this already installed.
PHP - Download & InstallPHP and the PHP package manager composer. If you encounter any problems, you can also use this guide to install PHP.
Composer - You're going to use the Composer Package Manager to manage your PHP packages. Make sure you've installed PHP first, then install composer globally:

The recommended way to get Str-converter App is to use git to directly clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/pasanks/str-converter.git

This will clone the latest version of the str-converter App repository to a str-converter folder.

Once you've downloaded the application and installed all the prerequisites, you're just a few steps away from starting to use the application.

The application comes pre-bundled with a composer.json file that contains the list of packages you need to start your application.

To install the dependencies, run this in the application folder from the command line:

$ composer update

This command does a few things:

First it will install the dependencies needed for the application to run.
If you're running in a development environment, it will then also install development dependencies needed for testing and running your application.
To update these packages later on, just run composer update again.

To run the application. Open up the downloaded directory on your terminal application and run:

$ bin/converter convert "STRING THAT YOU NEED TO MANIPULATE"

An argument must be provided when running the application.

The generated report CSV files can be found within the root directory.

If you're not sure about how to run the command or want to know what commands are available run please email me via : pasankavinga@gmail.com