An application to post and rank links to online news items, similar to www.reddit.com website. • Multiple users are able to create their accounts.
• There are two types of accounts: • One Administrator account. • User account(s)
• User are able to login and post the news item.Every item will have 3 fields: • Category • Heading • URL of some site
• All the news items are displayed according to their category.Clicking on the heading will open the page with url as mentioned at the time of creating the post.
• For each category news items will be shown according to their ranks.
• Ranks are be calculated on the number of likes/dislikes done on the post.(likes=+5 points, dislike=-3 points,start with 100 points for each post)
• User are later able to edit/delete the post.
• For each item, any user is able to like/dislike or comment on it.
• Admin can delete posts of any user or remove any user account. • Categories can only be added by admin.
• User are given option to put up an embeded youtube video.(give the link in the link box and video should automatically put it up in the website)
• Date/time for each post/comment is also recorded and displayed at the end of the post.
• Displays message informing user of the successful vote/post/comment etc.