We have a shortlist of affiliate contact records in a text file (affiliates.txt) -- one affiliate per line, JSON-encoded. We want to invite any affiliate that lives within 100km of our Dublin office for some food and drinks using this text file as the input (Don't alter). Write a program that will read the full list of affiliates from this txt file and output the name and affiliate ids of matching affiliates (within 100km), sorted by Affiliate ID (ascending).
You can use the first formula from this Wikipedia article to calculate distance. Don't forget, you'll need to convert degrees to radians.
The GPS coordinates for our Dublin office are 53.3340285, -6.2535495.
You can find the affiliate list in this repository called affiliates.txt.
Please don’t forget, your code should be production ready, clean and tested!
- Demonstrate understanding of MVC
- Unit Tests
- Basic HTML output
- Usage of a PHP Framework (Not necessary but as a Laravel based company it's a bonus)
- Use original txt file as input
Docker Desktop v3 or later
WSL2 installed & set up
Make sure the /var/www folder permissions are under www-data
Go to the src/ directory and copy the .env.example to .env.
Go to the laravel-docker directory and run docker-compose up -d --build to build the dockers.
Go into the php-apache docker, docker-compose exec php-apache /bin/bash and run php artisan key:generate.
Go to http://localhost:8080/ to view the app.
DB bash: docker-compose exec database /bin/bash
PHP bash: docker-compose exec php-apache /bin/bash
Run PHP Unit Tests: ./vendor/bin/phpunit or php artisan test for full details
The composer dump-autoload regenerates the list of classes needed within the project
The app .env files should be set up depending on environments. Debugging would be enabled on a DEV server, whilst # staging and production servers would have logs to other systems such as Elkstack, etc.