PHP Twitter Clone This project is a Twitter clone made with PHP and has many typical features that a Twitter has. This is a well-implemented project that demonstrates how some of the fundamental interactions of social media can be built, whether you are interested in social networking or web development.
Key Features:
User Authentication & Profile Management:
You can add the ability for users to sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles.
Access to settings, profile customization with ease.
Tweet Creation:
It can be used to post tweets with text and images.
The ability to include hashtags and mentions within your tweets.
Tweet character limit (like Twitter).
Follow and Unfollow Users:
Follow the new users and manage followers.
Discover who beholds you, and who you behold.
See recommendations of who to follow.Get personalized recommendations on who to follow
Interaction with Tweets:
You can like, comment, retweet, and quote tweets.
Tweets now have nested comments, one-upping engagement.
Real-Time Notifications:
Notify about likes, comments, follows and other actions.
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Search Functionality:
Search for users by name or username.
Within app search tweets, hashtags and users.
Responsive Design:
Also, the platform is responsive so it looks good on desktops, tablets and mobiles.
Dark Mode:
Users have the ability to set if they’d prefer light mode or dark mode, a state that will persist between visits.
Modal for New Users:
Once the user registers, a friendly modal appears to explain some of the platform’s main features and guide them through the experience.
Admin and Error Handling:
So if the registration fails, the subsequent actions of tweeting and uploading an image also fail gracefully without making the application fall apart.
Why Download This Project?
Learning Tool: Excellent learning and educational tool for interested people who are willing to learn PHP and web development. It showcases how user authentication, database management, and real-time notifications work.
Fully Functional: It mirrors many of Twitter’s core features, and gives you a look at building a proper social media app.
Flexibility: You can modify and expand the functionality of the software to add more features, customizations, and optimization.
Responsive Interface: A design pattern that mobile-first design is perfect for, ideal for testing how a social media platform can flourish on any screen space.
Supported Operating Systems:
You can compile this project in the following OS:
Windows:
MAC:
Linux:
Installation:
Follow the Following Steps After Starting Apache and MySql in XAMPP:
1st Step: Extract file
Step 2: Copy the root folder of the project
Step 3: Do paste in Asking path xampp/htdocs/
Now Connecting Database
Step 4: Now open your browser and type “http://localhost/phpmyadmin/”
Fifth Step: Click the Databases Tab
Step 6: Now create database with name “tweetphp” and click on the import tab
Step 7: Click on browse the file and choose “tweetphp. sql” file located in the “DATABASE” folder
8th Step: Click on go.
After Creating Database,
Step 9: Launch a browser and visit URL “http://localhost/tweet/”
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This is a great project for developers who want to build a social media platform or want to learn more about building a dynamic, user-driven website. It is that by downloading this clone you’d get an insight of social networking and at the same continue improvement of your PHP and JavaScript knowledge.