Blog Platform with PHP
BPlatform is a web application developed to provide a complete environment for companies or individual people to write, read and publish their posts
This project includes a local setup guide designed for XAMPP (Windows), LAMP (Linux/Mac), or Laragon. Follow these instructions to get the application running on your local machine.
- PHP and MySQL setup (via XAMPP, LAMP, or Laragon)
- Git
Download the project files to your server by running:
git clone [repository-url]
cd project-folder
Open your PHPMyAdmin or database management tool.
Create a new database.
Open config.php in the project folder and update it with your credentials:
<?php
session_start();
define('WEBSITE_URL', '');
define('DB_HOST', '');
define('DB_NAME', '');
define('DB_USER', '');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
Locate the provided SQL schema file (e.g., database_schema.sql). Run this script in your database to initialize the required tables and structure.
Start your web server (XAMPP, LAMP, or Laragon). Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/project-folder to view the application locally.