BloggingPlatform

A simple java based web application for blogging with design clone of a popular blogging platform Medium.

Functionalities

• User Registration & Authentication
• Session Management
• Create a blog post with an image and assign a category
• Display posts in multiple layouts and by categories
• Profile to keep count of all your posts and personal details
• Admin can publish posts globally for all the users

Development Environment

• JDK 8
• Mysql Server
• Eclipse IDE with web tools platform package
• Required JARs
  • jstl-1.2
  • mysql-connector-java-5.1.46
  • servlet-api
• Apache Tomcat v8.5

Database Schema

CREATE TABLE `posts` (
  `post_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `title` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
  `image` longblob,
  `content` varchar(50000) DEFAULT NULL,
  `authorname` varchar(35) DEFAULT NULL,
  `category` varchar(25) DEFAULT NULL,
  `user_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`post_id`),
  KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
  CONSTRAINT `posts_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE
)

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  `email` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `password` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`)
)

How To Run this application

1. Clone this repository
2. Configure the environment for this web application
3. Deploy and run on tomcat
4. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/BloggingPlatform/

Technology Stack

• Frontend - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
• Backend - JSP, Servlet, MySQL