Simple Cooking Blog is a web application that serves as a culinary blog with the ability to create, edit and delete posts, add comments and likes. The application allows you to register, log in and manage from the admin level.

• Adding posts by a logged in user. Determining the title, recipe text, ingredients, selecting a photo for the post, time needed to complete, number of servings, categories and difficulty level.

• Ability to edit your posts.

• Ability to delete your posts along with all photos and comments on the post.

• Ability to add comments to posts by logged in users.

• Ability to add like to posts by logged in users.

• User panel containing all user postsUser panel containing all user posts.

• Admin management panel containing:
  • All user posts can be edited and deleted,
  • All user comments can be deleted,
  • List of all users with the option to delete.

• Changing the color theme.

• Sorting posts by category
• Search for posts by keyword

• Registration combined with simple validation and reCAPTCHA v3.

• Login with "remember me" and "forgot password" features.

• Install XAMPP tool version 3.3.0.
• Place the application folder in the XAMPP tool directory named htdocs (\xampp\htdocs).
• Launch the XAMPP tool.
• Click the start button for both the Apache and MySQL modules.
• Open your web browser and type localhost/phpmyadmin in the address bar.
• Click the Import button.
• Choose the cookingblog.sql file from the database folder located in the application directory.
• Click the Import button at the bottom.
• Enter localhost/simpleCookingBlog in the address bar.

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JS ES2023
• Bootstrap 5.3
• PHP 8.2.4

SetEnv KEY = value

To create a key, go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create, choose reCAPTCHA v3 and add to domain:

  localhost

SetEnv DB_CONN = value