MVC (Model - View - Controller) is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces on computers. As someone gets deep in web (or software) development, he/she should understand the principles that come from MVC.
This blog app is based on the above pattern.
Requirements:
- PHP version 5.5 and above.
Third party modules:
- PHPMailer ( used in contact form )
To test the project in your machine you have to make the following changes:
- email.php ( under models )
Set
$mail->Username = "your_email@gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "your_application_password";
$mail->addAddress("your_email@gmail.com");
To get a Gmail application password follow the official guide.
- dependences.php ( under config )
Change the $_Title variable according to your preference. This will be the main title of the blog.
The project uses many-accounts relationship. There is one admin account which can edit the posts of all the other members.
To register an account (as there is no such thing as register form) you have to contact to admin by contact page and request one member account.
The administrator of the website needs to change the follwoing line to grant access in the server.
- admin.variables.com ( under members/config )
Change $adminEmail variable with your own domain.
For better security use a custom domain.
Example: administrator@secretdomain.com
The domain of each user is shown in the footer area of each post in this format:
Added on Day Month Year from member's email
For administator's posts the member's email section is filled with the following account :
some_name @epost.com
You have to change the following files to be able to connect to Mysql database.
- db.php ( under config )
Change the following lines with your credentials:
define('DBHOST','host');
define('DBUSER','user');
define('DBPASS','password');
define('DBNAME','name');
The database uses two tables. One is called blog_members and the other blog_post.
The members table contains the users account (including administrator's). To set a new account you have to type manually an SQL Insert comand like so:
INSERT INTO `blog_members`(`username`, `password`, `email`) VALUES ('someUserName','somePassword','comeEmail')
For Member Database Schema see: members/members_schema.sql
The post table contains the following columns: the title, a description and the main content of each post as well as the date of creation.
For Posts Database Schema see: blog/posts_schema.sql
We add a helper php script called bcrypt.php under root directory. This script takes as input a text value and returned the hashed one. The feature adds some security to our members as we verify now their passwords using bcrypt.
You have to use password_verify() to verify passwords from the database.