README

This is the final project developed in the Web Projects subject at university. The objectives were to implement a web portal similar to Instagram. The result was an application with the following features:

• Registration : Although any user can see the public posts, to be capable of sharing posts and do other actions too a registration process must be submitted. The user has to introduce its personal data and confirm its email by a email confirmation process.
• Follow : Any user registered can follow other users and be followed by them.
• Share posts : The user can share photos with the rest of users or in a private mode, where only the users who follow him can see them.
• Comment : A registered user can write a comment in any post he see. He can also delete any comment wrote.
• Like : Give a 'like' to a posts the user liked. The user can unlike the posts whenever he wants.
• Notifications : The user receives notifications on the web portal when any other user follows him, comments or likes any of its posts.
• Top posts: A section with the five posts more visited by the users of the application.
• Profile editing: The user can update its personal data.

Technologies used

We used different languages, frameworks or packages to implement this project.

Languages

• PHP : All the back-end of the application is developed in PHP. Access to database, session control, handle http requests...
• MySQL : The database is implemented in MySQL following a relational and normalized model.
• Javascript : Used for front-end management and to send asynchronous requests to the back-end.
• HTML and CSS : We used them in Twig templates.

Frameworks

• Silex : A PHP Framework based on Symfony.
• Bootstrap : Used for the front-end of the application.

Dependency Management

We used composer to install the libraries we need for the project.

Setup

In the file Database.php on the path ./src/lib/Database/Database.php you can uncomment the user and password to access the Database with Vagrant.

composer install command **must be executed ** before start using the application correctly. This command will instal the Bootstrap package as well as the other project packages dependencies.

The project structure follows the MVC pattern (Model - View - Controller).