Quora Clone

Quora is a well question forum which has millions of users, and questions, answers and posts on almost every topic in the world covering nearly every question. Such forums can provide easy access to information which is either not readily available or if available is hard to comprehend.

In this project, we have attempted to recreate this forum website as a web application to better understand the working of a real-world entity implementing both the front end and the back end part to learn to implement these technologies for a project trying to make as less difference in our clone as possible.

Technologies Used

HTML
CSS
JS
Bootstrap
PHP
MySQLi

Tools used

VS Code
Git and GitHub
XAMPP Server
PHP Mailer
MySQL database

Features

The specific options that we will be provided in our application are:

Register as a new user
Login into the application
Read other people’s questions
Choose from a variety of topics
Post a question yourself, attach an image if required
Answer your peer’s questions
Manage your profile details
Contact us in case of any problems

Future Scope

The application is still in early stages, it can be customized according to usage. We plan on hosting it as “Aste”, a platform for college students like us to post queries and answer and help out our peers efficiently. It can be hosted after adding further features like filtering questions by favorite categories, not allowing a repeated question, tagging an answer, enhancing the profile page like visiting another user, following them etc, allowing image addition in answers as well. We can also add posts which will be different from question in respect that they are providing information instead of asking them. We can also add the option of like and comment in questions and post and implement machine learning algorithms for better results and searches. After hosting it can be used for daily purposes to interact with our seniors or alumni or simply help out our classmates and juniors. This can also be used as a place for collaboration of like-minded people to meet and build projects and indulge into research with each other.