Edwin's Blog - Blog Project | Laravel 9

This project was made with a deadline of two days. I used the already provided frontend template, where I added everything necessary to the database, created relations between the tables, and did the backend in Laravel 9. This project also available a management system (CMS) for blog posts. More information is below...

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 and above
• Composer
• Since this project is running Laravel 9, I suggest checking out the official requirements

Installation

• Clone the repository by running the following command in your command line below (Or you can download the zip file from GitHub)

git clone https://github.com/perisicnikola37/blog-management-laravel.git

• Head to the projects directory

cd blog-management-laravel

• Install/Update Composer dependencies

composer install | composer update

• Copy .env.example file into .env file and configure based on your environment

cp .env.example .env

• Generate an encryption key

php artisan key:generate

• Migrate the database

php artisan migrate 

• Seed database

  • Use the following command

    php artisan db:seed

• For development or testing purposes, you can use the Laravel built-in server by running

php artisan serve

After running the above commands, you should be able to access the application at http::/localhost or your designated domain name depending on the configuration.

Setup

• Log in to the application with the following credentials

  • Email: admin@gmail.com
  • Password: password

• Project Workflow

  • When you log in, you would be redirected to a Homepage
  • On this page, you can create a blog post, enter your profile settings, logout and many more
  • Click on Profile to enter your Profile settings
  • In the CMS you can manage all of your blog posts, or if you are an administrator, you can manage all blog posts on the platform and users also
  • As an administrator, you are able to view platform analytics
  • As an administrator, you can also delete a certain user or all users by selecting
  • Inside your profile settings you can edit your name, email address, picture, password, and many more
  • As an administrator, you have a special field called about where you can write something about yourself which will be displayed on the About Page within the platform

• There are two roles:

• administrator and subscriber

Possible errors:

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Roles

Administrator

• Ability to create, edit, view, and delete all blog posts on the platform
• Ability to create, edit, view, and delete all users on the platform
• Can view analytics page
• Can manage the information which will be displayed within about page

Subscriber

• Ability view all blog posts on the platform
• Ability to create, edit, view, and delete their blog posts
• Can view all users on the platform but can't delete them

Features

• When an administrator deletes someone's post, that post automatically relates to that administrator
• Used Laravel Sluggable for SEO
• Added reCAPTCHA on registration
• Added e-mail contact with Mailgun
• Added CSRF protection
• Added Middleware protection for unregistered users
• Added session messages
• Added Factories for users and blog posts using faker
• Every user has a default picture
• Used Chart.js
• Added pagination on homepae
• Added TinyMCE as HTML editor
• Users have CMS ( Management System )
• Forms Validation

🚀 Tech used

• PHP v.8
• Laravel v.9
• MySQL
• HTML v.5 / CSS v.3 / Bootstrap v.5
• JavaScript