Laravel-Blog-Website

📝 Laravel Blog Website

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A full-featured blog platform built using Laravel 10. This project demonstrates clean architecture, modern web design, authentication, CRUD operations, and scalable Laravel practices.

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication & Authorization
• ✍️ Rich-text post editor
• 🏷 Category & Tag management
• 📊 Admin Dashboard
• 🌐 SEO-friendly URLs & meta tags
• 🔎 Search functionality
• 💬 Comments system (optional)
• 📱 Responsive and mobile-first design
• 🔒 Security best practices implemented
• 📦 Easily extendable structure for future features

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📸 Demo Preview

Homepage

Admin Dashboard

Index Screenshot

View Screenshot

Create Screenshot

Edit Screenshot

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🛠 Tech Stack

Technology	Description
Laravel	PHP Framework
PHP	Backend Language
MySQL	Database
Blade	Laravel Templating
Bootstrap	Frontend Framework
JavaScript	Interactivity
Composer	PHP Dependency Manager

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⚙️ Installation Guide

Make sure you have PHP, Composer, Node.js, MySQL installed on your machine.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/TareqAlKushari/Laravel-Blog-Website.git
cd Laravel-Blog-Website

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Copy .env and set your environment variables
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

# Install Node dependencies (optional if you use frontend assets)
npm install && npm run dev

# Set up your database credentials inside `.env`
php artisan migrate --seed

# Start the local server
php artisan serve

Access your application at: http://127.0.0.1:8000

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📄 API Documentation (Future Enhancement)

• GET /posts — List all blog posts
• POST /posts — Create a new post
• PUT /posts/{id} — Update a post
• DELETE /posts/{id} — Delete a post
• GET /categories — List all categories

More detailed API documentation can be generated with tools like Laravel API Resources, Swagger, or Postman collections.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

• Fork the repository
• Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch)
• Commit your changes (git commit -m "Add some feature")
• Push to the branch (git push origin feature-branch)
• Open a pull request

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Author 🙋‍♂️

Tareq Al-Kushari GitHub • LinkedIn • Facebook • Instagram • X • Email • Portfolio Website

License 📜

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.

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