FriendMatch (Back End)

Flask server of FriendMatch with mySQL database.
FriendMatch is a platform that finds you friends and suggests events based on your hobbies.

DBMS Project by Devipriya Sarkar and Namita Roy

Setup Instructions

mySQL Setup

1. Setup a mySQL user with username <your-mysql-database-user> and password <your-mysql-database-password>.
2. Create a database <your-mysql-database-db>.
3. Create the tables as in mysql_files/schema/schema.sql.
4. Create the stored procedures as in mysql_files/stored_procedures.
5. [Optional] For initial dummy data, data from mysql_files/data can be imported into respective tables.

Flask setup

1. Make sure python 2.7 is installed on your system.
2. Install all the packages in requirements.txt.

To install using pip, run pip install -r requirements.txt.

3. Update the variables in setup.py,

   YOUR_MYSQL_DATABASE_USER = '<your-mysql-database-user>'
   YOUR_MYSQL_DATABASE_PASSWORD = '<your-mysql-database-password>'
   YOUR_MYSQL_DATABASE_DB = '<your-mysql-database-db>'
   YOUR_MYSQL_DATABASE_HOST = '<your-mysql-database-host>'

4. To run the application,

$ export FLASK_APP=app.py
$ flask run
* Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/

If you are on Windows you need to use set instead of export.
Alternatively you can use python -m flask:

$ set FLASK_APP=app.py  
$ python -m flask run  
* Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/  

5. On Windows, run ipconfig on command prompt and note down the IPv4 Address <ip-address>.

On Linux, run ifconfig instead.

6. Now head over to http://<ip-address>:5000 to test if server is running.

Now you should be able to run the Android app of FriendMatch. Download from [here] (https://github.com/DevipriyaSarkar/FriendMatch-Frontend/releases) and if you want to run the app on the local server just set up, click on "Have a local server?" and enter <ip-address>:<endpoint> in the input field, eg. 192.168.1.107:5000 .

License

The content of this repository is licensed under MIT LICENSE.