ArtGala

29/11/2021

By Simon Kairu

Description

ArtGala is a photo gallery web application that display photos. Users are able to see all the images uploaded by admin. They can also copy the link to a photo to paste at their destination. They can also search for photos based on the categories.

Behaviour Driven Development(BDD)

Behavior	Input	Output
View photos of interest	Scroll to see a gallery and click on picture	Displays a picture with name description and copy link for sharing
Search a picture by category	Enter the category in the search input	Displays photographs in the searched category
View pictures by location	Click on location of interest in menu bar	Displays photographs of chosen location
Copy Link to clipboard	Click on copy link button in the modal class	Copies link to clipboard
View Single picture	Click on photo of interest then click on image	Displays a single page with details of the picture and related images

Features

As a user of ArtGala web application, you will be able to:

View different photos that interest me
Search for different categories of photos
Copy a link to the photo to share with my friends
View photos based on the location they were taken

Setup/Installation Requirements

To interact with the ArtGala web application:

Have the latest version of browser installed
Click on this link to view the gallery.

To contribute to ArtGala web application:

Clone the Repo

Create an account on Github
Fork the repository from Github with this link
Clone the repository
Open the project cloned project

Activate virtual environment

Activate virtual environment using python3.6 as default handler virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install dependancies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the Database

- psql
- CREATE DATABASE gallery;

.env file

Create .env file and paste paste the following filling where appropriate:

SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key>'
DBNAME = 'gallery'
USER = '<Username>'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
DEBUG = True

Run initial Migration

python3.8 manage.py makemigrations gallery
python3.8 manage.py migrate

Run the app

python3.8 manage.py runserver
Open terminal on localhost:8000

Known Bugs

There are no known bugs so far

Technologies Used

Python v3.8
HTML
Bootstrap
Django
Postgres

Support and contact details

In case of any problem while interacting with the web application, reach out to me at [email protected]

simonkairu / galaart Goto Github PK

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