Find Your Group

This is a mini social project. You can add friends, edit personal profile, upload image, post your daily life, comment to posts, search users, and check whether friend is online

NOTICE: This project using remote database (RDS) and AWS S3 for images store. If you want to run in local, you must configure some files.

Configure local database and store pictures locally.

• change db.php file, modify $servername, $username, $password and $dbname according to your own database.

• change controller/photo-action file, modify $target_dir="img/" to set all pictures stored in img folder. delete following code:

   try{
  
   //upload to S3
   $result = $client->putObject(array(
   	'Bucket' => $bucket,
   	'Key'    => $imagename,
   	'Body' => fopen($_FILES['uploadimage']['tmp_name'], 'r+'),
   	'options' => [
   	'scheme' => 'http',
   	],
   	));
  
   } catch (Exception $e) {
   exit($e->getMessage());
   }

  and replace it with

   move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadimage']['tmp_name'], $imagename);

  modify$targetPath to $targetPath=$imagename

• change controller/profile-action.php file, delete the following code:

   try{
    //upload to S3
   	$result = $client->putObject(array(
   		'Bucket' => $bucket,
   		'Key'    => $headshot,
   		'Body' => fopen($_FILES['headshot']['tmp_name'], 'r+'),
   		));
  
   } catch (Exception $e) {
  
   exit($e->getMessage());
   }

and uncomment the following code block. modify$targetPath to $targetPath=$headshot.

Configure RDS and S3

If you have your own AWS account and want to deploy RDS and S3, you still need to configure some files.

configure RDS

• if you want to connect RDS to your phpmyadmin, edit php configuration file bin/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php. Add following code and your own RDS URL in server(s) configuration block:

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'your own RDS URL';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = TRUE;

Restart PHP server after configuration.

• change db.php, modify $servername, $username, $password and $dbname according to your own RDS.

configure S3

• I strongly recommand to configure aws credential file to store your access key instead of hard code. For crediential file, refer to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v2/guide/credentials.html#credential-profiles. If you currently do not have aws hidden folder, you can create it in computer's home folder (c:\ for Windows, Macintosh HD for MAC) yourself. In addition, according to S3.php, the access key should be placed under [project1] section in credentials file.

• On the other hand, if you want to connect to S3 with hard code, you can replace code in s3.php with following code and paste access key in it:

    <?php
    require 'aws/vendor/autoload.php';
    use Aws\S3\S3Client ;
    use Aws\S3\Exception\S3Exception;
    try{
    $client = S3Client::factory(array(
        'credentials' => array(
            'key'    => 'your access key ID',
            'secret' => 'your access secret key',
         ),
        'version' => '2006-03-01',
        'region' => 'us-west-2'
    ));
    } catch(Exception $e) {
     exit($e->getMessage());
    } 
    //S3 bucket name
    $bucket = 'minisocial';
    ?>

• In S3, a bucket named minisocial should be created for storing, if you want to create bucket in another name, edit $bucket in S3.php file. Besides, According your S3 URL and bucket name, edit $targetPath in controller/profile-action.php, controller/photo-action.php, register-action.php, and "s3path" in upload.php.

• For folder used to stored pictures in AWS S3 bucket, create /img for saving user headshot and /postdata for saving post picture.