Portfolio Website - Niraj Aghera

This portfolio website showcases the work, education, projects, and contact information of Niraj Aghera, a Computer Engineering student and web developer.

Table of Contents

• About
• Education
• Certificates
• Projects
• Contact

About

The About section provides an overview of Niraj Aghera's background, interests, and skills. It covers his passion for web development, programming, competitive coding, and more.

Education

This section details Niraj's educational journey, including his secondary and higher secondary education, and his ongoing pursuit of a B.Tech in Computer Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University.

Certificates

The Certificates section displays certifications achieved by Niraj from various online platforms like Coursera and HackerRank. Each certificate is accompanied by a brief description and a link to verify the certification.

Projects

The Projects section showcases some of Niraj's notable projects. Each project is presented with an image and a link to view the project live.

Contact

The Contact section offers a form to send messages to Niraj. It collects the sender's first name, last name, email, subject, and message. It also includes a Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention.

Setting Up the Contact Form

To set up the contact form, follow these steps:

1. Email Configuration: Create an email account dedicated to sending and receiving messages. Configure the send.php file to use the credentials of this email account for sending emails.

2. Google reCAPTCHA: Obtain a reCAPTCHA site key from the Google reCAPTCHA Admin Console. Replace the data-sitekey attribute in the form with your reCAPTCHA site key.

3. Environment Variables: For security reasons, avoid hardcoding sensitive information like API keys or passwords directly into files. Use environment variables to store sensitive data.

   export GMAIL_USERNAME='your_email@gmail.com'
   export GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD='your_app_password'
   export RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY='your_recaptcha_site_key'

   Replace 'your_email@gmail.com', 'your_app_password', and 'your_recaptcha_site_key' with your actual email address, app password (if required by your email provider), and reCAPTCHA site key, respectively.

   Note: Ensure that sensitive information stored as environment variables is not exposed in publicly accessible files.

4. Composer Configuration:

   • Add the following line to your composer.json file:

     "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.8.1"

   • Run the command:

     composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

5. Gmail XOAUTH2 Authentication (Optional): If using Gmail XOAUTH2 authentication, add a dependency on the league/oauth2-client package in your composer.json.

   "require": {
       "phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.8.1",
       "league/oauth2-client": "^3.0"
   }