tokslaw.com — Personal Portfolio & Professional Website

A containerized portfolio website for Toks Lawal, a Product Architect and Senior Software Engineer specializing in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and full-stack development. Built with CodeIgniter 4 and deployed via Docker.

About

This site serves as the central hub for Toks Lawal's professional presence, featuring:

Portfolio — Curated showcase of projects and engineering work
About / Experience — Career history across MyFit.ai, Intralot, Float Mobility, and ChiefSoft Works
Services — Software architecture, microservices design, and full-stack development offerings
Blog — Dynamically pulled from an external blog data API (blogdata.chiefsoft.net)

Live at: tokslaw.com

Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Framework	CodeIgniter 4 (PHP 8.1+)
Web Server	Apache 2.4 with `mod_rewrite`
Containerization	Docker + Docker Compose
Frontend	HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Hub Template by LiquidThemes)
Fonts	Google Fonts — Be Vietnam Pro, Libre Baskerville, Space Grotesk
External API	`https://blogdata.chiefsoft.net/blogdata/tokslaw`
Image Registry	`registry.chiefsoft.net` (private)
Extensions	MongoDB, Redis, xDebug (dev), GD, mysqli, pgsql

Project Structure

TokslawMain/
├── app/
│   ├── Controllers/
│   │   ├── BaseController.php   # Shared APIcall() cURL helper
│   │   ├── Home.php             # Homepage — fetches live blog data
│   │   ├── About.php            # Experience timeline (hardcoded)
│   │   ├── Portfolio.php        # Portfolio page
│   │   ├── Services.php         # Services offered
│   │   └── Project.php          # Project detail view
│   ├── Views/
│   │   ├── welcome_message.php  # Homepage template
│   │   ├── about.php            # About/Experience template
│   │   ├── portfolio.php        # Portfolio template
│   │   ├── services.php         # Services template
│   │   ├── project.php          # Project detail template
│   │   └── styles.css           # Custom overrides
│   └── Config/
│       ├── Routes.php           # URL routing
│       └── App.php              # App-level configuration
├── public/                      # Web root — point your server here
│   ├── index.php                # Application entry point
│   ├── .htaccess                # URL rewriting rules
│   └── assets/                  # CSS, JS, images, fonts, vendors
├── docker/
│   └── apache/
│       ├── Dockerfile           # PHP 8.1-Apache image definition
│       └── 000-default.conf     # Apache VirtualHost config
├── docker-compose.yml           # Container orchestration
├── writable/                    # Cache, logs, sessions (auto-generated)
├── apache_log/                  # Apache access and error logs (mounted)
├── composer.json                # PHP dependency manifest
├── env                          # Environment variable template
└── spark                        # CodeIgniter CLI

Routes

Method	URL	Controller	Description
GET	`/`	`Home::index()`	Homepage with live blog feed
GET	`/portfolio`	`Portfolio::index()`	Portfolio showcase
GET	`/about`	`About::index()`	Experience & background
GET	`/services`	`Services::index()`	Services offered
GET	`/project`	`Project::index()`	Project detail page

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Docker and Docker Compose installed
Git

Local Setup

# 1. Clone the repository
git clone <repo-url> TokslawMain
cd TokslawMain

# 2. Copy environment template
cp env .env

# 3. Set your local container port and UID (edit .env)
#    CONTAINER_PORT=7083
#    UID=1000

# 4. Build and start the container
docker-compose up -d --build

# 5. Install PHP dependencies (inside the container)
docker-compose exec tokslaw-main composer install

The site will be available at: http://localhost:7083

Environment Variables

Copy env to .env and configure as needed:

CONTAINER_PORT=7083   # Port to expose the site locally
UID=1000              # Host user UID for file permission mapping

No database credentials are required — the site does not use a local database. Blog content is fetched at runtime from the external API.

Docker Details

Base image: php:8.1-apache
Published image: registry.chiefsoft.net/tokslawcom-web:latest
Exposed port: 80 (mapped to CONTAINER_PORT on host)
Document root: /var/www/html/public
Restart policy: unless-stopped
Volumes:
- ./ → /var/www/html (source code, live-mounted)
- ./apache_log → /var/log/apache2 (persistent logs)

PHP Extensions installed in image: bcmath, bz2, calendar, curl, exif, gd, gettext, iconv, intl, mysqli, pgsql, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, soap, tidy, xsl, zip + PECL: xdebug, mongodb, redis

Deployment

Images are built and pushed to the private ChiefSoft registry:

# Build the image
docker build -t registry.chiefsoft.net/tokslawcom-web:latest -f docker/apache/Dockerfile .

# Push to registry
docker push registry.chiefsoft.net/tokslawcom-web:latest

# On the server — pull and restart
docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

Note: xdebug is active in the Docker image by default. Disable it in production for performance.

Development

# Run tests
composer test

# PHP CodeSniffer / CS-Fixer
./vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix app/

# CodeIgniter CLI (spark)
php spark <command>

# View application logs
tail -f writable/logs/log-$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log

# View Apache logs
tail -f apache_log/error.log

PHP Requirements

PHP 8.1 or higher
Required extensions: intl, mbstring, curl, json
Optional: mysqlnd (MySQL), libcurl (HTTP requests)

License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

Built and maintained by Toks Lawal — tokslaw.com

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