Travel System (Laravel 11)

Graduation project built with Laravel 11: a travel website with a public-facing site, user accounts, bookings, and an admin panel to manage content and settings.

Features

• Public pages: home, about, contact, FAQ, team, blog, destinations, packages
• User flow: registration + email verification, login, password reset
• User area: dashboard, bookings + invoices, wishlist, reviews, messages
• Admin panel (/admin/login): manage sliders, features, counters, testimonials, team members, FAQ, blog categories/posts, destinations (photos/videos), packages (amenities/itineraries/photos/videos/FAQs), tours + bookings + invoices, reviews, users, subscribers (email send), terms/privacy, site settings
• Payments: Stripe (test) + PayPal (sandbox)
• Email: SMTP (commonly tested with Mailtrap)

Tech Stack

• PHP ^8.2, Laravel ^11.9
• Vite (frontend build)
• DB: SQLite (default in .env.example) or MySQL

Local Setup

1) Install dependencies

composer install
npm install

2) Configure environment

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Update .env for your database and any integrations (Mail/Stripe/PayPal).

3) Database

Option — MySQL (with sample data dump)

This repo includes a MySQL dump at DB/Travel_system.sql (schema + data). Create a database, import the dump, then set:

• DB_CONNECTION=mysql
• DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD

4) Seed (optional)

By default, database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php runs SettingSeeder.

To create an admin account for local testing, run:

php artisan db:seed --class=AdminSeeder

Local admin credentials (change after first login):

• Email: admin@gmail.com
• Password: 1234

5) Storage symlink (uploads)

php artisan storage:link

6) Build assets + run

npm run dev
php artisan serve

Open the app:

• Site: http://127.0.0.1:8000
• Admin: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/login

Configuration Notes

Mail (Mailtrap)

Set .env mail variables (MAIL_MAILER=smtp, MAIL_HOST, MAIL_PORT, MAIL_USERNAME, MAIL_PASSWORD, MAIL_ENCRYPTION).

Stripe (test mode)

Set:

• STRIPE_TEST_PK
• STRIPE_TEST_SK

Used by config/stripe.php.

PayPal (sandbox)

Set:

• PAYPAL_MODE=sandbox
• PAYPAL_SANDBOX_CLIENT_ID
• PAYPAL_SANDBOX_CLIENT_SECRET

Used by config/paypal.php.