Doctry - Doctors and Hospital Listing

1. How to Translate language in Doctry?

2. How to apply update to your existing application?

3. Email Configuration

4. How to setup CRON job in Doctry

5. Server Requirements

6. How to Enable Real Time Chat

Translation of strings is termed as localization in laravel official documention.

You can change language according to your need in doctry by following the steps given below.

• Go to project main folder you will find "resources" folder e.g doctry > resources 

• There you will find a folder named "lang"  

• In which there are language folders like "en", "de" etc. 

• If your required folder exist then you need to do the following steps for translating or changing words

  • you can find 6 files containing application translation in which you can change words value as you required.

  • you can find most of the translation in lang.php file.

Create New Language

If your required folder not exist then you can create new language by following steps

• Create your language folder with its code name e.g "en", "de" etc.

• Copy all the files from "en" folder and paste it in your folder that you want your application to be translated in.  

• All files contain the translated strings of the whole application. You have to translate all files manually.
• Go to project main folder (root) -> app folder -> Helper.php 

• Open Helper.php find (getTranslatedLang) function add your created language in list e.g 
  'fr' => array( 'code' => 'fr', 'title' => 'French', ), 
• Go to Admin Dashboard -> General Settings you will find "Language Settings" option if you do previous step correctly you will find your language in the dropdown as shown in image below. 

• select your language and click save. 

• After select language and save if still language not update then clear your application cache from Admin Dashboard -> General Settings > Clear Cache settings as shown in below image. 

For more information regrading translation in laravel you can visit laravel official documention Laravel Localization

If you don't want to upload and replace complete application with your existing application then you need to do the following steps.

1- Before update must backup your database and application folders and files.

2- You do not have to replace all the application folders every time. 

Just the following specific folders are important to replace and your application will be updated to latest version.

Folders include are: 

• app
• resources
• config
• database
• routes
• vendor
• js
• css
• node_modules
• Files include
  • composer.json

3- Open your website or application in a browser, login as admin then go to settings -> general settings -> Important update option and click import. This will update your database.

Note: You must backup your application and database before applying update. After updating the application  you can replace your custom.css file from your backup.

You need to configure the following settings in your .env file

• MAIL_HOST: Your mail server host
• MAIL_PORT: Your mail server port
• MAIL_USERNAME: Your email id
• MAIL_PASSWORD: your email password
• MAIL_ENCRYPTION: If your MAIL_PORT=587 then MAIL_ENCRYPTION must be tls and if your MAIL_PORT=465 then it must be ssl
• MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: Your Email Address

For Gmail server you need to do the following steps

If 2 Step Verification is Enabled:

If your 2 step verification is enabled in gmail account you need to do the following steps.

• Login into Gmail.
• Click on the "Google Account".
• Click Security -> App Passwords
• Select "Mail" as the app and "Other (Custom name)" as the device from the drop downs then click generate.
• New window open with your 16 character app password . (Kindly copy this and keep it safe).
• Know open your .env file and change the following setting
1. MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
2. MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
3. MAIL_PORT=465
4. MAIL_USERNAME=youraccount@gmail.com
5. MAIL_PASSWORD=your-app-password
6. MAIL_ENCRYPTION=ssl
7. MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: youraccount@gmail.com

If 2 Step Verification is Disabled:

• Open your .env file and change the following setting
1. MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
2. MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
3. MAIL_PORT=587
4. MAIL_USERNAME=youraccount@gmail.com
5. MAIL_PASSWORD=your-gmail-password
6. MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
7. MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: youraccount@gmail.com

Go to the cPanel and then click on Cron Jobs

Then Setup a Cron Job according to your needs. 

Command will look something like that

/opt/php71/bin/php -q /http://yoursite.com/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

This CRON job will execute and create the payouts history in the admin panel and then admin can export the payouts list of the selected month.

Thanks

Below are the server requirements for the laravel application's

• PHP version= 7.1.3
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP Extension
• Laravel version = 5.8
• Node.js

Please make sure Node.js server is installed and active on your server. Please ask your hosting provider to run server.js file through SSH commands, server.js file is located in (your-project > js > server.js) Please ask your hosting provider how we can setup node server file. You need to set server host and port from chat settings

Note: if you have used port other than 3001 then please update port in server.js as well.