Muziki App 🎼

• This is my first project of 2025.
• Shoutout to @shadman346 https://github.com/shadman346/music-player and
• This is an improvement of his application with added database functionality. I'll keep adding more feature to it.
• Import the database into your phpmyadmin.
• Update the DB credential in the php file or by following the instructions below to use .env file
• You can update the images and music file paths and sources to your liking e.g S3. I have included a few songs for testing.

Using .env file to hide db credentials in php. 📑

Step 1: Install phpdotenv

• Navigate to your project directory:

cd /var/www/html/myproject

• Install phpdotenv using Composer: composer require vlucas/phpdotenv

• This will create a vendor directory and update (or create) a composer.json file in your project.

Step 2: Create the .env File

• Place the .env file directly inside your project root directory (/var/www/html/myproject).

Example .env file:

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=root
DB_PASS=root12
DB_NAME=music

Step 3: Use phpdotenv in Your Project

• In your PHP script where you connect to the database (e.g., config.php), load and use the environment variables:

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
$dotenv = Dotenv\Dotenv::createImmutable(__DIR__);
$dotenv->load();

$servername = $_ENV['DB_HOST'];
$username = $_ENV['DB_USER'];
$password = $_ENV['DB_PASS'];
$dbname = $_ENV['DB_NAME'];

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

Step 4: Ignore .env in Version Control

• Create or update .gitignore in the project root:

  .env