A medal ceremony in a marble hall. You sign the race register (5 km, 10 km, half or marathon, and your time); Laravel homologates it on the Clever Cloud PHP runtime, engraves your time and pace on a medal struck in your rank's metal, mounts your enamelled crest on the podium and places you on the nine-step stair of honour, from Iron to Challenger, with the time you need for the next step. Every result comes with the jury's minutes, read from PHP itself: the request received, the calculation, the PHP version and SAPI, the PHP-FPM worker that answered, the processing time and the instance. No database, no add-on, no session stored on the server: any instance can answer any request.
Run it yourself. The hosted demo was taken down after the presales review (November 2026). The steps in Deploy on Clever Cloud recreate it from scratch in about 5 minutes.
Get certified. This demo runs on Clever Cloud. To deploy your own apps the same way, get certified at the Clever Cloud Academy.
| In the ceremony | What runs | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| The register | GET /, served by Apache and PHP-FPM; Composer installed Laravel 12 at build because composer.json is at the repo root |
The sheet number is the PID of the PHP worker that served the form; the clerk's note under the title gives the PHP version, the SAPI, the processing time and the instance |
| Homologation | POST /result: Laravel validates the event (5k, 10k, 21k, 42k) and the time (45, 45:30, 1:45:30), RunController computes pace, rank and score |
The medal (time and pace engraved), the crest on the podium, the brass plaque, the next step |
| The jury's minutes | App\Support\Platform::runtime() reads PHP_VERSION, PHP_SAPI, getmypid(), the time since LARAVEL_START and the peak memory |
One line per fact, under a rubber stamp dated by the server. "Rejouer la requête" sends the same entry again: another worker, or another instance, answers |
| Web root | clevercloud/php.json sets "webroot": "/public" |
Apache serves public/index.php, Laravel's front controller; nothing else in the repo is reachable |
| PHP version | CC_PHP_VERSION |
composer.lock holds Symfony 8 components that need PHP 8.4 or later |
| Session | SESSION_DRIVER=cookie, encrypted with APP_KEY |
The CSRF token and the "Format invalide" message travel in the cookie: no database, no add-on |
| Scaling | 1 to 2 instances behind the load balancer | Stateless: every instance shares the same APP_KEY, so no sticky session is needed |
| Clever frame | The platform variables, read by App\Support\Platform |
The "Running on Clever Cloud" panel (app, instance, commit, deployment; "Local" outside the platform) and the Clever Cloud Academy medal in its display case |
The rank comes from the pace alone (RunController::RANKS). Each step of the stair has its own crest, richer as you climb:
| Pace per km | Rank | Crest |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 3:00 | Challenger | Sun, crown, wings and rays |
| ≤ 3:30 | Grandmaster | Eight-point star, crown and wings |
| ≤ 4:00 | Master | Torch and crown |
| ≤ 4:30 | Diamond | Faceted lozenge and a gem |
| ≤ 5:00 | Platinum | Cross, laurels |
| ≤ 5:30 | Gold | Star, laurels |
| ≤ 6:30 | Silver | Two chevrons |
| ≤ 7:30 | Bronze | Chevron |
| slower | Iron | Bar |
The "Top N %" index is a score, not a population statistic: a reference pace for the distance (4:00 for 5K, 4:15 for 10K, 4:30 for the half, 5:00 for the marathon) divided by your pace, times 50, capped at 0–100. The half marathon counts as 21.1 km, the marathon as 42.195 km. The next step shows the time to beat on the same distance (10 km at 4:30 per km: 45:00).
You need clever-tools (clever login done) and the ID of the organisation that will own the resources (orga_…, shown in the Console). Run the commands from the repo root: clever create links the folder to the new app.
# 1. The app and its size
clever create --type php runrank --org <org_id> --region par
clever scale --min-flavor nano --max-flavor XS --min-instances 1 --max-instances 2
# 2. No add-on: sessions are cookies, nothing is stored
# 3. Variables (the key is generated in the command and never printed)
clever env set APP_KEY "base64:$(openssl rand -base64 32)"
clever env set APP_ENV production
clever env set APP_DEBUG false
clever env set SESSION_DRIVER cookie
clever env set CACHE_STORE file
clever env set CC_PHP_VERSION 8.5
clever env set CC_HEALTH_CHECK_PATH /
# 4. Deploy
clever deploy
clever openThe web root comes from clevercloud/php.json, already in the repo. There is no .env in the repo: every setting above is an environment variable of the app.
| Variable | Set by | Role |
|---|---|---|
APP_KEY |
you, generated in the command | Laravel's encryption key: encrypts the session cookie. Same value on every instance |
APP_ENV |
you | production |
APP_DEBUG |
you | false: no stack trace in the page |
SESSION_DRIVER |
you | cookie. Laravel's default is database, which would need a table |
CACHE_STORE |
you | file. Laravel's default is database |
CC_PHP_VERSION |
you | 8.5 (Symfony 8 components need 8.4 or later) |
CC_HEALTH_CHECK_PATH |
you | /: the register answers 200 without any dependency |
CC_APP_NAME, APP_ID, INSTANCE_NUMBER, INSTANCE_TYPE, CC_PRETTY_INSTANCE_NAME, CC_COMMIT_ID, CC_DEPLOYMENT_ID |
the platform | Shown in the "Running on Clever Cloud" panel and in the jury's minutes. No other variable is ever printed |
| Route | What it does |
|---|---|
GET / |
The race register, the stair of honour, how the jury works |
POST /result |
distance (5k, 10k, 21k, 42k) and time (45, 45:30 or 1:45:30): the medal, the podium, the minutes. An unreadable time sends you back to the register with the error |
GET /up |
Laravel's health route: 200 when the app boots |
app/Http/Controllers/RunController.php the logic: parse the time, pace per km, rank (RANKS), score, next step
app/Support/Platform.php the platform variables shown, and the facts read from PHP (version, SAPI, PID, time, memory)
app/Support/RankStyle.php how each rank looks: crest enamel, medal metal, the jury's remark
routes/web.php GET / and POST /result
resources/views/home.blade.php the register, the clerk's note, how the jury works
resources/views/result.blade.php the medal over the podium, the verdict, the jury's minutes
resources/views/partials/ crest, medal and ribbon (SVG), stair of honour, Academy display case
resources/views/layouts/ceremony.blade.php Clever header, "Running on Clever Cloud" panel, footer
public/ceremony.css, public/ceremony.js the universe's styles and the small form script
public/cc-brand.css Clever Brand Kit, copied as is
clevercloud/php.json web root /public
The pages load their fonts from Google Fonts (Cinzel for the engraving, Plus Jakarta Sans and JetBrains Mono from the brand kit) and two static files from public/: no front-end build. Medals, crests and the marble are drawn in SVG. The interface is in French.
composer install
APP_KEY="base64:$(openssl rand -base64 32)" SESSION_DRIVER=cookie CACHE_STORE=file \
php artisan serve --port=8401 --no-reload
# → http://localhost:8401PHP 8.4 or later. Without a .env file, the variables on the command line are the whole configuration, as on Clever Cloud. The tests run with php artisan test (or vendor/bin/phpunit); they bring their own throwaway key.
MIT, see LICENSE.