Mini Quora

A minimal quora like application made with vanilla php, mysql, and basic javascript for validation.

Setting up the project

• Trivia - This was made back in summer of 2015. This was my first php project.
• The setup is primitive. There are better ways to setup a php app these days.
• Setup servers
  • either install XAMPP / LAMP, it will take care of everything
  • or install php7 and mysql on your system and make sure they're available on command line
  • If you're on windows, you'll need to set environment variables.
• Replace your mysql installation's username and password in Qconnect.php
• Now we need to start the php server.
  • If you're using xampp, simply open the control panel and fire up the apache server.
  • Alternatively, if you have php7 installed in your computer, php7 supports an inbuilt server. Simply navigate to the src folder and run the command php -S localhost:8000 to fire up the server. Navigate to http://localhost:8000 to see homepage.
• Now we need to start the sql server
  • If you're using xampp, simply open the control panel and fire up the mysql server
  • Alternatively, if you have mysql installed, simply start the server
• Next we need to create the database
  • Simply go to http://localhost:8000/Qdatabase.php in the browser. You should see a success message.
  • If there's any error, first resolve it. Most errors are because of wrong username and password.
  • Database dump Quora.sql for any reference if needed.
• The project uses only minimal css, focus is on backend.

Demo Flow

• sign up
• login
• ask a question
• at any time, you can display all questions, answer them, view already written answers

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