Social Network with Laravel

About The Project

Social network, build with Laravel 8, that implements main functionalities such as: -creating/editing/deleting posts with many images -comment posts -add friends -block users -tag users on comments and posts -set private account -archive posts -save posts

Main page

- Create post

User profile

Built With

Laravel 8
PHP 7.4 -Javascript
CSS
HTML

Getting Started

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Skebard/Social-Network-Laravel.git

Install composer dependencies

composer install

Install NPM dependencies

npm install

Create a copy of your .env file

cp .env.example .env

4.Set up your database credentials in the .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=yourHost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=yourDatabaseName
DB_USERNAME=yourUsername
DB_PASSWORD=yourPassword

Generate an app encryption key

php artisan key:generate

Create an empty database. Make sure that the name in the .env file corresponds with the created database. 7.Migrate the database

php artisan migrate

You can as well seed the database. When seeding you can see some errors due to the relationships between tables

php artisan db:seed

8.If you want to run a specific seeder use the following command changing UserSeeder for your desired seeder

php artisan db:seed --class=UserSeeder

Run the server. You can use artisan like this:

php artisan serve

Finally comment that when uploading files you might encounter problems if you php.info is not well configured.

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

Fork the Project
Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
Open a Pull Request