#Forum

A comprehensive web forum allowing users to communicate, share, and interact through posts and comments.

Description

This project is a web forum developed in Go that enables users to register, log in, publish messages, comment, and interact with content through likes and dislikes. The forum uses SQLite as a database and is containerized with Docker for easy deployment.

Features

Core Features

• Authentication

  • User registration (email, username, password)
  • Login/logout functionality
  • User session management with cookies

• Communication

  • Post creation (restricted to logged-in users)
  • Adding comments to posts (restricted to logged-in users)
  • Viewing posts and comments (open to all)

• Categorization

  • Association of one or more categories to each post
  • Filtering posts by category

• Interactions

  • Like and dislike system for posts and comments
  • Like/dislike counter visible to all users

• Filtering

  • Filter by categories
  • Filter by created posts (logged-in users only)
  • Filter by liked posts (logged-in users only)

Supplementary Modules

This project is complemented by additional modules in separate repositories:

• Forum Security: Advanced security features
• Forum Advanced Features: Additional functionality
• Forum Image Upload: Image upload management
• Forum authentification: authentification system

Technologies Used

• Backend: Go
• Database: SQLite
• Containerization: Docker
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks)
• Security: bcrypt for password encryption, UUID for sessions

Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

• Go installed on your machine
• Docker installed on your machine

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/forum.git
cd forum

2. Build the Docker image

docker build -t forum .

3. Launch the container

docker run -p 8080:8080 forum

4. Access the forum in your browser at: http://localhost:8080

Database Structure

The SQLite database includes the following tables:

• Users
• Posts
• Comments
• Categories
• Post_Categories (relationship between posts and categories)
• Likes (likes on posts and comments)

Testing

To run the unit tests:

go test ./...

Contribution

This project was done with :

• @Louis Sebastian Malack
• @Serigne Saliou Mbacke Mbaye Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.