Social Media Web Application

This is a social media web application built using the Django framework.

Features

• Send friend requests to other users and accept/reject requests received
• User sign up and login
• Create and edit profile page
• Create and edit posts uploaded by the user
• Password Reset option available to user
• Like/Unlike posts
• Comment on user posts
• Search for users and posts through the search bar

Technologies Used

Backend : Django

Frontend : HTML5, CSS(Bootstrap4 + Custom CSS), AJAX

Database: Sqlite3

Installation

1. • Fork the repo
   • Clone the repo to your local system

   git clone https://github.com/addy-1406/Social_Media.git
   cd Social_Media
   

   Make sure you have python installed on your system.

2. Create a Virtual Environment for the Project

   If u don't have a virtualenv installed

   pip install virtualenv

   For Windows Users

   virtualenv env
   env/Scripts/activate

   For Linux Users

   virtualenv env
   source env/Scripts/activate

3. Install all the requirements

   cd photoshare

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Make migrations/ Create db.sqlite3

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate

5. Create a super user. This is to access Admin panel and admin specific pages.

   python manage.py createsuperuser
   

   Enter your username, email and password.

6. Run server

   python manage.py runserver

Screenshots of Website

Sign Up Page

Home Page

Create Post Page

Page to keep track of friend requests received and sent

Comments section for a post

Update Profile Page

Team:

This project was made by:

• Aditya Mandal
• Tanish
• Mihit
• Soumyadeep