# Guide

The goal of InfyCare is to Manage your hospital appointment booking digitally.

# Technologies Used

This system uses multiple technologies to give the best possible experience.

PHP with Laravel Framework 10.x
MySQL 5.6+
PHP 8.1
jQuery
Ajax

# Installation Guide

We tried our best to make the installation of the system as easy as possible. System Requirements It is assumed that you have primary knowledge Laravel installation knowledge since this application is built on Laravel.

# System Requirement

It is assumed that you have primary knowledge Laravel and JS application installation knowledge since this application is built on Laravel with JS.

You can read about laravel Requirements here (opens new window)

(Optional) You need update below variables in php.ini file if you want to send bigger files.

upload_max_filesize = 50M

max_file_uploads = 50

post_max_size = 100M

# Setup InfyCare into Local Environment

You can set up InfyCare into your local by using given zip.

Here are some steps to set up InfyCare into your local environment :

# 1. Install xampp/wamp (if you don't have it).

# 2. Create folder `InfyCare`

if you are using wamp then create InfyCare folder under you_path_to_wamp/www/
if you are using xampp then create InfyCare folder under you_path_to_xampp/htdocs/

# 3. Unzip dist/src zip to InfyCare folder

# 4. Point the domain to the uploaded folder

You need to create virtual host first to setup InfyCare. You can find steps here to create virtual host.

You can find steps here (opens new window) to create virtual host on XAMPP.
You can find steps here (opens new window) to create virtual host on WAMP.

Point your domain or subdomain to the InfyCare folder.

Please note that, InfyCare must be installed on a primary domain or subdomain. Installing on a sub-folder will not work, for example:

    example.com/InfyCare (Invalid)
    localhost/InfyCare (Invalid) if you are putting it in sub folder or root website)
    example.com (Valid)
    local.InfyCare.com (Valid)
    InfyCare.test (Valid)

# 5. Steps to setting up the project

Please click here to follow the next steps for setting up the project

# Setup InfyCare System

If you have purchased the InfyCare system then you will be able to find the zip named dist.zip.

Now if you want to set up InfyCare on your server then you can directly copy the dist.zip folder to your web root directory on a server and the following steps:

# 1. Copy files to web server

Upload dist.zip to your web server's root (public_html) and extract it there.

# 2. Setup your database

Open PHPMyAdmin on your server and do a login.

Setup Default DB

Click on the Databases tab.

Setup Default DB

Create a new database and specify a Database name of your choice and Click Create button.

Setup Default DB

Now on the left, select the database (infy_care) OR the one that you have created.
Click Import in the top menu

Setup Default DB

Under Import, choose the default sql file from dist/database/infy_care.sql and click button Go.

Setup Default DB

# 3. Setup environment .env file

Open .env file from your server's root folder.

Setup Default DB

Update your .env file

You need to change the following information into your environment (.env) file.

- APP_NAME - Name of your Application
- APP_URL - Change this URL with your server URL (including trailing path if you are putting it in sub folder or root website)
- DB_HOST - Put your database hostname here
- DB_PORT - Put your database port here if it does not default to 3306
- DB_DATABASE - Change it to your database name
- DB_USERNAME - Name of your database user
- DB_PASSWORD - Password of your database user

You will also need to set up mail configuration, you can read more about here for that setup based on mail service that you use.

- MAIL_DRIVER 
- MAIL_HOST
- MAIL_PORT
- MAIL_USERNAME
- MAIL_PASSWORD
- MAIL_ENCRYPTION
- MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS 
- MAIL_FROM_NAME

If you want to store your files to direct your s3 bucket then you have to use following .env variables. You need to change FILESYSTEM_DRIVER and MEDIA_DISK value to s3 when you are using AWS file storage.

- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
- AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
- AWS_BUCKET=
- AWS_ENDPOINT=
- AWS_URL=

Or you can use your choice of storage driver to store your media assets if you want. All of your attachments will be placed into that.

Set Stripe configuration it is using while book appointment payments. Here are some links by using it you will get an idea about how to generate stripe API keys.

- STRIPE_KEY=
- STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=
- STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET_KEY=

Also, please set the google captcha keys too. Here (opens new window) is link to generate and get the keys of google captcha.

- NOCAPTCHA_SECRET=
- NOCAPTCHA_SITEKEY=

Follow below guide to make the Google Calendar Integration works. you need to set following env. You need to enable the google calendar API, Please Click Here (opens new window) to generate the the OAuth file.

Also Watch this video (opens new window) to get the file.

Set the redirect URL to : YOUR_APP_URL/google/redirect // e.g https://infy-care.com/google/redirect

Put the downloaded file to storage/your-file-name.json

- GOOGLE_OAUTH_PATH="your-file-name.json"

Set up the Paystack Credentials into env:

You have to create account from Here (opens new window) and then you can find steps here to generate sectet keys Here (opens new window)