A central platform for early career researchers and postdocs to find opportunities to fund their research and also to share experiences and to provide feedback.

Installation steps

ECRCentral is build with PHP using Laravel 5.5.x with Bootstrap 4.0.x. The authentication system is build upon Laravel Auth

Use the following steps to install the App:

1. Run git clone https://github.com/ecrcentral/ECRCentral.git ECRCentral
2. Create a MySQL database for the project
   • mysql -u root -p, if using Vagrant: mysql -u homestead -psecret
   • create database ecrcentral;
   • \q
3. Go to the projects home dir using cd ECRCentral and run cp .env.example .env
4. Configure your .env file by adding MySQL database details
5. Run composer update from the projects root folder
6. From the projects root folder run:
7. From the projects root folder run sudo chmod -R 755 ../ECRCentral
8. From the projects root folder run php artisan key:generate
9. From the projects root folder run php artisan migrate
10. From the projects root folder run composer dump-autoload
11. From the projects root folder run php artisan db:seed
12. Compile the front end assets with npm steps or yarn steps.

Build the Front End Assets

Using Artisan:

1. From the projects root folder run php artisan serve

Using NPM:

1. From the projects root folder run npm install
2. From the projects root folder run npm run dev or npm run production

• You can watch assets with npm run watch

Using Yarn:

1. From the projects root folder run yarn install
2. From the projects root folder run yarn run dev or yarn run production

• You can watch assets with yarn run watch

Optionally Build Cache

1. From the projects root folder run php artisan config:cache

Homepage screenshot

The portal will be available on http://ecrcentral.org/ For more check the screenshots folder.