walkthrough.txt

Thanks for checking out our tic-tac-toe game! More information about this project is below.

Authors: Kalib Watson, Ross Klimoski, Stephanie Walker
Course: AL 491, Michigan State University
Professor: Brian Adams

                                                                          Walkthrough
Creating the HTML & CSS
        - Ross made home page
        - Stephanie made game page
        - Kalib added final touches, including the CSS of the actual game board
        - We had to figure out how to get the css files into the correct folder on gitlab
        - We made sketches of what wanted pages to look like before actually coding the pages (show image below)
        - Found it was helpful to type our code in a separate text editor (I used Atom) and then copying and pasting it into the correct files within$


Core code(Kalib)
        - Set up gitlab
        - Coded the php


Challenges faced
        - adding data to database
        - retrieving data from database
        - checking items in the table
        - lack of resources, troubleshooting issues
        - MySQL understanding

Future Improvements
        - fixing the broken code
        - displaying a user’s scores on the game page
        - sorting the scores on the score page buy highest-lowest score

In order to start working on our project:	- SSH into your fws space 
	- Copy the SSH URL from the gitlab project page
	- Cd into your public_html directory and run git clone <the URL you copied> 
	- The project will take a minute to clone
	- Cd into the tictactoe directory
	- Run composer to install dependencies with composer install command
	- Answer yes to any composer questions
	- Check your fws http space and make sure the page comes up
	- Run the create_user_schema <your database name> command
	- Edit the config/app.php with your database credentials
	- Run bin/cake migrations migrate to get your database tables
	- Start developing!