Gamespace

Introduction

Gamespace is a social media web application made by gamers for gamers.

Usage

Set up local server

1. Install XAMPP

XAMPP Official dowload

2. Start local server

For Windows:
 1. Open the Xampp control panel and start the Apache and MySQL services

For Mac:
 1. Open XAMPP
 2. In general, click "start"
 3. In Services, start MySQL and Apache
 4. In Network, Enable Localhost:8080

3. Clone project code

Locate the htdocs folder found at:
 Windows: C:\xampp\htdocs
 Mac: Open XAMPP click->Volumes->Mount->Explore

Clone repository into new folder "gamespace" inside htdocs folder:

Using Git bash:
 Start Git bash from inside htdocs folder and run

git clone https://github.com/Will-Wei7/Gamespace.git gamespace

Alternatively:
 Repository link
 - Click Code->Download Zip
 - Extract the zip file into the htdocs folder
 - Rename folder "gamespace-main" to "gamespace"

Set up Mysql DB

1. Log into phpMyAdmin

http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

1. Click Import->Chose File and pick file schema.sql in /gamespace/db/
2. Click Go
3. Wait until import has finished

Navigate to website

1. Go to website

In your broswer navigate to page:
 Mac: http://localhost:8080/gamespace/index.php
 Windows: http://localhost/gamespace/index.php

2. Final notes

You can create a new account or login
For you convenience, test accounts and data have been included:

Username	Password
[email protected]	myPa$$longlonglong21
[email protected]	wuGdfTebSkk8giV
[email protected]	wuGdfTebSkk8giV

If you would like to clear this test data and start anew:
 1. Go to phpMyAdmin
 2. Click on database "gamespace"
 3. On every table click Operations->Empty the table (TRUNCATE)->Uncheck Enable foreign key checks
 4. Delete all files in the /gamespace/uploads folder