Social network with internal messaging system, message aggregations and trend analysis based on user’s posts
Homepage: On this page, the user’s feed, i.e latest posts by other users, will appear. The user can like/unlike a post if they click on it. They can access the aforementioned pages from the homepage.
Trending: On this page, the user can see the top 15 hashtags (and the number of posts) in the past 12 hours. When the user clicks on a hashtag, they are led to the view posts by hashtag page.
Messages: This is the user’s inbox page, where they can read messages they received, see sent messages, write a new message or access deleted messages. Unread messages appear in bold. Implemented using django-messages
View posts by user: If the user clicks on the ID of another user, they can see all posts by that user.
View posts by hashtag: Here the user can see all posts bearing the same hashtag. The user will be led to the page corresponding to any hashtag by clicking on it in a post.
Edit User Profile: On this page, the user can edit their username, change password, profile picture and other personal details. The user’s profile picture is automatically compressed to a lower resolution to save disk space.
New Post: Here, the user can create and post a new post, and add a hashtag to the post.
Liked Posts: Here, the user can see all the posts which they liked listed in chronological order.
- python
- Django(python framework)
- Crispy Forms(django package)
- image(pip install image)
- psycopyg2(pip install psycopg2)
- django-cleanup(pip install django-cleanup)
- Download and extract the repositary
- Open a terminal inside myproject directory
- run 'python manage.py createsuperuser' and create a superuser
- Select a database of your choice and change the settings in myproject/settings.py(We used postgresql)
- run 'python manage.py runserver' to start the server at http://localhost:8000
or - run 'python manage.py runserver ipaddress:port' start the server at http://ipaddress:port