majd-eddine-ben-tahar / laravel-blog

Laravel Blog Application

Laravel Blog Application

Overview

This Laravel-based blog application offers a comprehensive platform for blogging, including features for managing posts, categories, user profiles, and admin functionalities. Designed with a focus on user experience and administrative efficiency, it utilizes Laravel's robust capabilities, enhanced with Bootstrap 5 for a responsive and intuitive interface.

Features

• User Authentication: Utilizes Laravel's authentication system for secure user registration and login.
• Profile Management: Users can view and edit their profile information, including name,email and avatar.
• Admin Dashboard: A dedicated admin panel for managing blog posts, categories, and user accounts.
• Post Creation and Management: Admins can create, edit, and delete blog posts, with markdown support for content creation.
• Category Management: Allows for the creation, editing, and deletion of post categories.
• User Management: Admins can manage user accounts, including editing user information and deleting users.
• Change Password Functionality: Users can securely change their passwords.
• Search Functionality: Users can search for blog posts based on content or categories.
• Responsive Design: Styled with Bootstrap 5 for a modern, responsive user interface.
• Settings Page: Admins can update site settings, including site title and favicon.
• Pagination: Implemented pagination for blog posts and categories.
• Image Uploads: Support for uploading and displaying featured images in blog posts.
• Add Comments : Users can interact with the blog by adding comments to posts.
• Delete and Edit Comments : Users have the ability to remove their own comments, giving them control over the content they contribute to the blog, they also can edit their comments after posting them.
• Like posts : Users can like posts.
• About and Contact Pages: Includes template pages for 'About Us' and 'Contact' with dummy content.

Technologies Used

• Laravel: The application is built using Laravel, a robust PHP framework for web applications.
• Bootstrap 5: For front-end styling and responsive design.
• MySQL: Database management.
• Markdown: For blog post content creation and rendering.

Getting Started

To get started with this project, clone the repository and install the necessary dependencies via Composer. Configure your .env file with your database and other environment settings.

git clone https://your-repository-url.git
cd laravel-blog
composer install
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
# Create a database and name it laravel_blog
# Edit .env file with your database settings like the database user with his password
php artisan storage:link
mkdir -p public/storage/posts
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed
npm install && npm run dev
php artisan serve

Default User Accounts

After running the database seeders, you will have two default user accounts:

• Admin Account :

  Email: [email protected]

  Password: test1234

• Regular User Account :

  Email: [email protected]

  Password: test1234

License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT license.

Contact

For any queries or suggestions, feel free to reach me out at [email protected]

laravel-blog's Issues

Add a Text Editor like TinyMCE

Add a Text Editor like TinyMCE

Make the home page available even without authentication

Make the home page and single post page reachable even without authentication but don't allow liking and commenting until user is authenticated

Allow users to upload and display avatars on their profiles

Allow users to upload and display avatars on their profiles, use the avatar on comments and display default avatar for users that dont' have an avatar