University Forum Website

Website to facilitate communication between tutors and students depending on their classes.

Updated May/June 2019 to be more object-oriented as opposed to running procedural code.

Web Development Project 2018

Inspiration

Based forum layout on QUB student university website and built functionality from there.

Technologies

• HTML5
• Mini CSS v3.01
• PHP5
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• MySQLi

Features

• Documents can be uploaded by any admin or tutor who is enrolled in the subject, which can then be accessed for download by any user enrolled in the subject.
• Tutors and students enrolled in a subject can access a forum and create topics in that forum. They can then reply directly to a topic.
• Search functionality for both subjects and staff.
• Admin user can access a portal that allows them to create new users, subjects, search all available users, edit any user or subject and enroll students and tutors in subjects.
• Each user has a profile page that the user (or admin) can edit including updating password and adding a profile image (provided user is not a student).

Sources

• PHP/MySQL foum based on article: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-phpmysql-powered-forum-from-scratch--net-10188
• PHP OOP CRUD Tutorial - Step-By-Step Guide!: https://www.codeofaninja.com/2014/06/php-object-oriented-crud-example-oop.html
• PHP OOP Database class using MySQLI and Singleton pattern: https://gist.github.com/jonashansen229/4534794