Blog Project 5 - Create your first own Blog with PHP

Blog project for OPENCLASSROOMS, done with Vanilla PHP

What is this Blog ?

This blog is made of only PHP (except Twig as Template engine and a Bootstrap theme) using MVC architecture. This is intentionnal and for a learning purpose, before starting to use PHP frameworks. This means it has a custom router (inspired by Altorouter), custom Session management, custom Authentication and registration system etc... Here are the rules that needed to be followed :

• The blog has pages for visitors, and pages for administration.
• Admin section is only for registred users that have admin privilege.
• Commenting a post is only for registred users.
• Each new comment has to be approved by and admin.
• Posts can be created, edited and deleted only by admins. He can change title, chapo, content and author of every Post.
• Users rights can be modified by a Superadmin (giving or removing admin rights).

This blog is online here : https://blog.nayo.cloud and can be tested

Getting started

• Clone Repository
• Install dependancies using Composer with dev depandancies (composer install , https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md)
• Generates autoload file with Composer (composer dump-autoload, https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md)
• Create a database on your SQL server and import blog_demodata.sql file
• Configure access to this database in config file config.ini (db_name, db_user, db_password)
• Configure your mail setup on your PHP server, as this blog is using php mail function to send mails. I used a https://mailtrap.io/ inbox during the development
• Configure your contact mail and the server url on config file config.ini Messages from contact form will be sent to this address.

Let's go

• Username from blog_demodata.sql : AntoineD or DavidC (member profile), aurelm or fannyb (admin profile), anthonyf (superadmin profile)
• Password for all users is @dmIn123

Author

Anthony Fachaux - Openclassrooms Student - Dev PHP/Symfony