friendzone discontinued! Please use use the successor InstaHub.
Source code and install instructions are in English. Documentation and excersices currently are available in German only.
friendzone is a social network for educational purpose only. Students can create their own social network as a database admin. They learn basics about working in a software project, creating and managing a database, querying (SQL SELECT) and editing (SQL INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE).
This project aims to help students develop a general technical understanding of social networks. As result, they will be able to discuss sinjects as big data and information privacy.
Live Demo: https://friendzone.wi-wissen.de/
Read more (only in German): https://blog.wi-wissen.de/tag/friendzone
Many thanks and respect to:
- MySQL
- php
- Laravel
- Bootstrap
- jQuery with Backstretch
- Kitten image by Nicolas Suzor (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Splash images by unsplash.com (CCO)
- Face images by Greg Peverill-Conti (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- Download composer https://getcomposer.org/download/
- Download git https://git-scm.com/downloads
- Download XAMMP: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
- (Optional) Download and extract cmder mini: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/releases/download/v1.1.4.1/cmder_mini.zip
- Update windows environment variable path to point to your php install folder (inside XAMMP installation dir) (here is how you can do this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17727436/how-to-properly-set-php-environment-variable-to-run-commands-in-git-bash)
- Create a local database named
friendzone
with encoding utf8_general_ci - Create user
friendzone
and grant all rights onfriendzone
and for creating databases - cd to your local target folder and clone remote project:
git clone git://github.com/wi-wissen/friendzone.git
- Rename
.env.example
file to.env
inside your project root and fill in the database information. (windows won't let you do that, so you have to use Notepad++ or open your console, cd your project root directory and runmv .env.example .env
) - Edit
.env
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
- enable only temporaly for debugging!DB_*
- if you want another database than MySQL, you have to edit source code.DB_USERNAME
- user for databaseDB_PASSWORD
- passwort for databaseMAIL_*
- mail provider for resetting passworts (admin accounts may reset passworts without sending a mail)PHPMYADMIN
- url for opening phpMyAdmin - Example: https://friendzone.wi-wissen.de/phpmyadmin
- Open the console and cd to your project root directory
- Run
composer install
orphp composer.phar install
- Run
php artisan key:generate
- Run
php artisan migrate
- Run
php artisan db:seed
to run seeders, if necessary. - Visit website and create first user.
- In the
user
table of your database, manually set the attributeis_admin
to1
. Now your user is admin and may manage other accounts.
Thank you for considering contributing to the friendzone! Create a pull request or contact me.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Contact me if you need an other licence.