Web Forum

This is a web forum application, which provides certain functionalities of social network like creating posts with image uploading, liking/dislikng, commenting, notifications and deleting. The project is built using Golang and SQLite.

It implements 4 types of users:

1. Guests

   • These are unregistered-users that can neither post, comment, like or dislike a post. They only have the permission to see those posts, comments, likes or dislikes.

2. Users

   • These are the users that will be able to create, comment, like or dislike posts and also delete their own posts and comments.

3. Moderators

   • Moderators, are users that have a granted access to special functions :
     • They are responsible for which posts to be published
     • They are be able to monitor the content in the forum by reporting post to the admin

4. Administrators

   • Users that manage the technical details required for running the forum. This user must be able to :
     • Promote or demote a normal user to, or from a moderator user.
     • Receive reports from moderators. If the admin receives a report from a moderator, he can respond to that report
     • Delete posts and comments

Note

• There is only one administrator, which is created at initialization of the database. Login : meduza@gmail.com Password : Cheburek
• Images are not saved in database itself, since it may slow down the database operations. Instead, images are saved in ./internal/store/img/ folder.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are:

• Allow users to communicate between each other through posts and comments.
• Associate categories to posts.
• Allow users to like and dislike posts and comments.
• Implement a filter mechanism to filter posts by categories, created posts, and liked posts.
• Use SQLite to store the data for the application.
• Implement user authentication and sessions using cookies.
• Follow good coding practices and handle all sorts of errors.

Installation

To run this project, you need to have Docker installed on your machine. Then follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository.
2. Navigate to the project directory.
3. Run the following command to build the Docker image:

make build

4. Run the following command to start the Docker container:

make run

5. Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:{port number}.

If you want to run without Docker:

go run /cmd/web/*

Usage

To use the web forum application, follow these steps:

1. Register a new user by providing your email, username, and password.
2. Log in to the application using your email and password.
3. Create a post by providing a title, content, and one or more categories.