Blogging System / Content Management System 📘

Complete blog application from scratch using PHP and MySQL database.

Features

• A user registration system that manages two types of users: Admin and Normal users.

• The CMS have an admin area and a public area separate from each other

• The admin area will be accessible only to logged in admin users and the public area to the normal users and the general public.

• In the admin section, two types of admins exist:

  • Admin :
    • Can create, view, update, publish/unpublish and delete ANY post.
    • Can also create, view, update and delete topics.
    • An Admin user (and only an Admin user) can create another admin user or Author
    • Can view, update and delete other admin users
  • Author :
    • Can create, view, update and delete only posts created by themselves
    • They cannot publish a post. All publishing of posts is done by the Admin user.

• Only published posts are displayed in the public area for viewing

• Each post is created under a particular topic

• A many-to-many relationship exists between posts and topics.

• The public page lists posts each post displayed with a featured image, author, and date of creation.

• The user can browse through all posts listings under a particular topic by clicking on the topic

• When a user clicks on a post, they can view the full post and comment at the bottom on the posts

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of PHP language and MySQL database management system.

Installing

• Clone the repository on your server directory ( htdocs or www ) :

git clone https://github.com/MajhiRockzZ/php-content-management-system.git

• To view this in your browser, go to http://localhost/php-content-management-system/

• You can import the database from cms.sql file ( which is included in this repository ) using phpMyAdmin.

• That's all. 🎉

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• Also you can open this folder in a text editor of your choice, for example, Visual Studio Code.

Tools Used

• XAMPP - PHP development environment.
• phpMyAdmin - Administration tool for MySQL.
• Visual Studio Code - Source-Code Editor.
• PhpStorm - The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE.

Built With

• PHP - General-purpose scripting language.
• MySQL - Open-source relational database management system.
• Git - Software for tracking changes.

Authors

• Sumesh Majhi - Portfolio Site - MajhiRockzZ

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Edwin Diaz - The Instructor that cares! 😇