Comment system for a programming challenge.
The system was developed to the specs below.
Write a website comment system for a website with the following rules:
- Only name and comment are required fields
- Page should not refresh when posting a comment
- Commenters can write a reply to other comments
- Maximum of 3 levels in nested comments
- Comments (within in the same level) should be ordered by post date
- Should filter out malicious text that could result in a security vulnerability
- Doesn't need to be beautiful but also shouldn't make our eyes hurt
- No need for edit, delete, moderation, login, ...
- It's up to you to decide how the comments are stored and what libraries you use.
What we are looking for (in order of importance):
- Working code that meet requirements
- Clean and readable code
- Organization of business logic that makes sense and is maintainable
- Documentation, when helpful
- Check out the files in this repo
- Create a (virtual)?host and point it to the
publicdirectory of this repo - From the root of the repo, run
composer install. More info about Composer - Create a MySQL database and import schema structure from
sql/install.sql - Copy
conf/config.json.sampletoconf/config.jsonand fill out MySQL credentials - Access the app via browser