Simple Blog

About simple blog

simple blog is a web application enable you to view categories and its posts and have admin panel where you can crud over posts and categories made by technologies:

• Laravel 5.6 as backend.
• Adminlte dashboard.
• Bootstrap 3.3.
• Javascript and Jquery-3.2.1.
• Backend and frontend validations.
• unit tests.
• Colorlib 404 v1 template for error.
• startbootstrap-coming-soon template for welcome page.

Simple blog advantages

• SIMPLE USER INTERFACE a simple user interface that shows group of posts and when I click on post it will take me to another page that shows the post details.

• menu navbar that shows the blog categories.

• In the home page, it show me every post title, category, description, and a button that go to the post details page so you can see the whole post content.

• In the post details page, it show you a post title, category and the whole post content.

• ADMIN DASHBOARD an admin dashboard that helps to manage the whole content in the blog.

• Create categories section that shows all the categories. Also links that helps you to add, edit, delete category.

• Create posts section that shows all posts. Also add links that helps you to add, edit, delete posts.

• When you add new post, you can add post title, description, content, and assign a category for this post.

RESTRICTIONS

post:

• post title: required, unique, min length: 3 characters and max length: 70 characters.
• post description: required, min length: 35 characters and max length: 100 characters.
• post content: required, min length: 100 characters.
• post category: required, must exist before.
• when delete a post it will be hard deleted.
• to see posts you have to be logged in.

category:

• post name: required, unique and min length: 3 characters.
• when delete a category it will be hard deleted. with all its posts.

admin dashboard:

• the user with id = 1 will be the admin and it generated from seed with email: admin@laravel.com and password: admin so the system has only one admin in this release.

Server Requirements

• Apache Web Server
• PHP >= 7.1
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

Installing Simple Blog

• open terminal and copy this https://github.com/AhmedHelalAhmed/blog-task.git and paste it then press enter and do all the steps with the same terminal.
• then copy and paste the following commands cd blog-task composer install php artisan key:generate cp .env.example .env
  set up the database info
  make new database with name for example (blog_task) then set up
  DB_DATABASE=blog_task
  DB_USERNAME=your username
  DB_PASSWORD=your password
  in .env file
  then copy and paste the following commands
  php artisan config:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan migrate
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed
php artisan serve
  then open the url: http://localhost:8000 and here we go.

Demo

the website deployed in Heroku connected with postgres database Simple Blog Demo

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within Simple blog, please send an e-mail to Ahmed Helal via ahmed.helal.ahmed.ali@gmail.com.

License

The simple blog is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.