News Portal

Simple News Portal designed using PHP Codeigniter Framework

1. Database Initialization

   • Import db.sql file in your MySQL database
   • If you are using PhpMyAdmin,Click on home button,then click on import button(top bar),then Click on Choose File button and choose db.sql file and click on Go button at the bottom
   • The sql file will create a database named news_portal and load all the tables in it
   • If table or database already exist this will truncate existing database and table and insert them again

2. Virtual host

   • This project is deployed on a virtual host,for this project to work properly virtual host must be created
   • newsportal.dev is virtual host address
   • If you are using XAMPP on windows follow the instructions below
   • Open file \apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
   • Add the following code at the end of file replacing your XAMPP directory

   	<VirtualHost *:80>
   	DocumentRoot "<Your XAMPP directory>/htdocs/news_portal"
   	ServerName newsportal.dev
   	</VirtualHost>

   • Now we need to edit windows host files
   • Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
   • Add the following lines at the end of document 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 newsportal.dev

3. PHP mailer configuration

   • Open application\config\php_mailer.php
   • Set your email and password and choose mail host (Default is Gmail)
   • You will also need to allow acces to less secure apps in Gmail (https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps)