🧑‍💼 User Portal - PHP User Management System

A simple PHP-based user portal that supports registration, login, profile management, and dashboard functionality. This project demonstrates basic user authentication, file upload, and session handling. A secure and well-structured PHP User Portal built with the MVC approach.

This project demonstrates best practices in:

• 📂 Organizing PHP code using Models for cleaner architecture
• 🔒 Secure database connection with PDO & prepared statements
• 👤 User registration, login, and profile management
• 📊 Simple dashboard for authenticated users

Ideal for developers learning PHP project structure or building real-world authentication systems.

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🚀 Features

• User Registration with profile image upload
• User Login & Logout
• Authenticated Dashboard
• AJAX-based interactions
• MySQL database integration
• Basic modular structure

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• PHP (Core)
• MySQL
• JavaScript / AJAX
• HTML / CSS
• Bootstrap (if used in assets)
• jQuery (optional, based on usage)

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🗃️ Project Structure

user-portal/
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├── index.php              # Homepage (Redirect to login)
├── register.php           # User registration form
├── login.php              # Login logic
├── logout.php             # Logout script
├── dashboard.php          # Authenticated user dashboard
├── config.php             # Database connection setup
├── auth_check.php         # Session-based access control
├── ajax.php               # AJAX endpoints (e.g., validation)
│
├── user_portal.sql        # SQL dump for users table
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├── /uploads/              # User-uploaded profile images
├── /assets/               # CSS, JS, or image files
├── /models/               # Model components
├── /db/                   # Possibly DB interaction layer

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

🔧 1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/user-portal.git
cd user-portal

🗄️ 2. Setup Database

• Create a MySQL database (e.g., user_portal)
• Import user_portal.sql using phpMyAdmin or CLI:

mysql -u root -p user_portal < user_portal.sql

⚙️ 3. Configure Database Connection

Edit the config.php file with your DB credentials:

const DB_HOST = 'localhost';
const DB_NAME = 'user_portal'; // Database name if changed.
const DB_USER = 'YOUR_DB_USERNAME_HERE';
const DB_PASS = 'YOUR_DB_PASSWORD_HERE';

🚀 4. Run the Project

Use a local server like XAMPP, WAMP, or MAMP.

Place the folder in your htdocs and access:

http://localhost/user-portal/

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🧪 Testing

• Register a user
• Log in using the credentials
• Access dashboard.php
• Test uploading a profile picture
• Use browser Dev Tools to view AJAX requests

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⚠️ Image Upload Issue?

If profile images fail to upload, make sure the /uploads folder is writable:

sudo chmod -R 775 uploads/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data uploads/

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👨‍💻 Author

• Sachin Sanchania – @sachin-sanchania