About Netboost:
A database-driven platform for students & companies to connect & mutually benefit built on real world projects. The focus of this project was to create a web application using PHP. This was a group project and we decided to use PHP MVC framework created by one of our group members.
Live Website: Netboost
Technologies used:
HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap & PHP
Roles and responsibilities:
I built four different CRUD features on this website:
- Teacher Profile
- Company Profile
- Student Profile
- Chat System
I also designed and developed code for the admin dashboard for teachers, companies and profile.
Case study: I had to work on the features keeping in mind the different user roles. Chat system was one of the most difficult yet exciting feature I worked on as it involved working with multiple SQL tables to retrieve user information, chats and chat members.
- Teacher, Company and Profile profiles
Upon login, the user based on role lands on their respective profile pages. I worked on the display of the profile page that retrieves data based on user logged in and gave the user rights to edit their profile and deactivate their profile.
- Chat System
As the users would need to communicate with each other while using the platform, I created a communication system through which teachers & companies as well as students & teachers could communicate with each other. I created three tables for this – Chats, Chat Members, Messages and used the existing User tables to make this chat system work.
Each time the user creates a message, I added functionality to retrieve the recipients from database. After which, when the user sends the message, it adds entries to the chats, chat members and messages table. I also added the feature where the user could reply or send messages in an existing chat that has already been created.
I also used a Database Trigger to update Chats table when a new message is added to the Messages table.
Below are a few notes taken while working on all my features –
