Instagram Clone - Laravel Project

Welcome to the Instagram Clone project built using Laravel! This web application allows users to register, create profiles, share posts with images and captions, follow/unfollow other users, add likes and comments, and much more. The project is designed with various features to mimic the functionality of the popular social media platform, Instagram.

Live Demo

register/login demo

Table of Contents

1. User
2. Posts
3. Home page

User

Signup and Login

• Users can sign up using their email or phone, providing necessary information such as Full Name, Username, and Password.
• Email verification is implemented, ensuring the user's email is valid.
• Users can log in using their email and password.
• Forgot/Reset Password functionality is available.

Profile Management

• Users can edit their profile details, including avatar, bio, gender, and website.
• Changing the email triggers email verification for the new email.
• Users can change their password.

Profile View page

• Displays user information such as username, avatar, bio, gender, and website.
• Shows counts of user's posts, followers, and following.
• Lists user's followers and following.
• Displays published posts with the ability to navigate to the post view page.
• Users can follow/unfollow and block other profiles.

My Profile Page

• Similar to the Profile View page with the addition of a tab for saved posts.
• Allows users to edit their profile.

Posts

New Post page

• Users can add posts with one or more images and captions.
• Captions can include tags (words preceded by #). Tags can't contain spaces.
• Images are required, captions are optional.

Post view page

• Displays post image with caption.
• Clickable tags navigate to the tag page.
• Users can comment and like any post.
• Comments display owner name, avatar, and time.
• Users can add the post to their saved list.

Tags Page

• Users can see posts related to the selected tag.
• Posts are shown in rows with three posts each.
• Clicking a post image navigates to the post view page.

Home Page

• Users see the latest posts from profiles they follow with likes/comments (max 3 comments).
• Users can add likes/comments to the posts.
• Includes a search box for posts.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install dependencies using composer install.
3. Install dependencies using npm install.
4. Set up your database and configure the .env file.
5. Run migrations and seed the database with php artisan migrate --seed.
6. uncomment ;extention=gd by removing the ";" in the php.ini file.
7. Start the development server with php artisan serve.
8. npm run dev to compile and build the assets.
9. run php artisan storage:link to upload and use the images correctly.