CS5200 Final Project
- Change
userandpasswordfield based on your MySQL credentials inconfig.jsonfile
"user": "",
"password": "",
- Go the terminal and go to the python directory.
- On terminal type "python login.py" to run the login python script. -- That is the start point of our application.
- Create a new user by following the instructions.
- Login using the newly created user.
- You will see the main post page with different operations listed.
- To create a post Click on create post and follow the instructions.
- To delete the post, come back to the main page and select on delete the post.
- To upvote a post, you select upvote and vote it. You can also remove your vote from the main page itself.
- To comment on the post, go to Read/Comment option and comment then you have three options, 1.Create Comment 2.Update a comment
- According to our design decision, a comment can only be deleted when a post is deleted. This would make people comment only when they mean to say something important.
- To Check the user profile, select the option.
- Now you should see options to delete and update the user profile.
- Finally to log out you have option 10 that closes all the cursors and connections and loggs the user out of both the database and the applicaiton.
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Showing profile page
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Hashing and storing password
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CRUD User
- Create
- Read profile page
- Function to return one profile based on userName
- Update any fields of user
- Procedure
- Delete user --> user can delete itself
- Procedure
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CRUD Post
- Create Post
- Read post
- Update post
- Update IS ONLY increasing or decreasing Vote
- Delete post will delete its comments
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CRUD Comment
- Create comment and subcomment
- Read thread of comment of a post
- Update one comment
- Delete - TO DO --> Changed
-- only deleting post can delete comments
- Delete the top-level comment, child comments get deleted
- Deleting sub-comment, only sub-comment gets deleted
After successful user creation, user is prompted back to screen asking for login
- In activity diagram, after successful signup, user goes directly to home page with newly signed up user name