olivierluethy / ggames

A games website where you can buy games virtually, without currency or payment. Similar to Steam or Epic Games.

GGames

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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Installation Guide

About The Project

At the company, I was working on a big project with another colleague. It was a web-based software. To realize this project we used the languages PHP and JavaScript. For the database we used MySQL. During the development of the software, I was fascinated by what you can develop with PHP and MySQL.

After that, I started many small projects, but most of them turned out to be nothing. So I decided to start my first own big project. Since I always wanted to create a store, I decided to use PHP and MySQL to create a to create a game store similar to Steam. I structured the code almost the same as the one we used for the company's project.

When I first started programming, I often got annoyed when things didn't work the way I wanted them to. I often had to delete and rebuild the project because there were too many bugs in the code. After a few months, things started to get better. I was able to finish a large part, but not the heart of the project. By that, I mean that a logged-in user could buy games from the site. You could only add, edit, or delete games. But not buy them. I held on to that goal for a long time.

Later I went to an inter-company course for about a week. There I learned how to work with PHP and the MVC pattern. I learned it very quickly and started with some small projects. Most of them turned out to be nothing though. One of them was the TackPad application.

After half a year, the company tested me to see how good I really was. I had to program a large web application. When I was able to complete every single task of the assignment, I realized how good I really was.

After that, I decided to continue working on my game store, which was a dream of mine to finally finish. I started all over again.

It took me a long time to program everything perfectly. About 1 to 2 weeks. When I finished a big part of the project, I spent hours fixing the bugs, except for buying games. After about 4 hours I was finally able to finish it, and I was so extremely happy to finish something I had been working on for so long.

Installation Guide

1. At first you need to install git on your local computer. For that, you need to go to this website.
2. Go to your Windows Explorer and search for a good place to store this project
3. Now right-click on your folder or place and then click on "Git Bash Here"
4. Finally you will see a new program. If you do you only have to enter this
   

   git clone https://github.com/Oli7000/GGames.git