Build A Custom Dynamic Blog Website with PHP, MySQL & Jquery

Install Visual Studio Code, set up Windows environment, install XAMPP with Apache and MySQL, verify localhost, and test with a temp folder before stopping the servers.

Set up a Mac environment by installing Visual Studio Code and XAMPP, launching local servers, and organizing the docs folder for developing a blog site.

Download and preview Calvin and admin templates, set up a localhost blog with Apache, convert pages to PHP, and implement header and footer includes for dynamic database content.

Customize the blog templates by adding a header-opaque style, updating the navigation, and wiring the categories to a database, then expand the admin templates and dynamic links across pages.

Configure and customize the admin interface by adapting the header, navigation, sidebar, and footer. Build dynamic blog management pages—categories, blogs, and write a blog page—preparing for database integration.

Create and name a blog database in phpMyAdmin, then design four tables—blog_post, blog_category, blog_tags, and blog_comments—with a primary key and auto increment.

Establish a database connection in PHP by defining server, username, password, and database name in a db connection file, then include it to run a test query on blog post.

Implement add category functionality on the admin side by wiring a post form to includes/add-category, inserting new categories into blog_category, and displaying updated categories with success and error messages.

Configure add, view, edit, and delete category functionality with popups and PHP includes for blog admin.

Write a blog post in the admin template using a dynamic form, capture title, category, images, and content, validate input, and insert into the blog post database.

Add and validate main and alternate blog images with jQuery and PHP, validating image types, uploading to a blog images folder, and storing image URLs in the database.

Learn to manage blog admin sessions in a dynamic PHP blog, storing form data with sessions to autofill fields, handle image uploads, and validate errors for title, category, and content.

Configure the blogs page to fetch all non-deleted posts, display post details with category names and views, and enable view, edit, and delete actions using popups and status-based deletion.

Create and configure the edit blog post page in a PHP MySQL app, prefill fields, manage images and tags, and prepare to save changes.

Edit blog post page p2 demonstrates saving edits to a blog, handling image replacement, and updating blog records in a php mysql jquery driven site.

Learn to automatically add tags to blog posts by linking blog post IDs to a tags table, handle tag updates, and implement session resets in a PHP-based blog workflow.

Learn to integrate the Summernote API to customize blog content fields with a rich text editor, including setup, initialization, and applying it to both creating and editing posts.

Builds a dynamic blog homepage by querying the database, joining blog posts with categories, and rendering a hero slider with the first post, image, and category link.

Fetch and display all active blog posts from the database on the home page, showing each post's title, image, summary, and a read more link ordered from latest to oldest.

Configure the blog header to dynamically load categories from the database and render navigation links, enabling category pages and testing with more blogs to simulate a real blog site.

Create and refine the blog categories page by querying category data, showing category titles and meta titles, and filtering blogs by category_id to display category-specific posts ordered by latest.

Build a dynamic single blog page in PHP using MySQL and jQuery by fetching the post data, main image, category, and tags, with previous/next navigation.

Develop a dynamic blog comments system with PHP by fetching top-level and child comments for a post, counting replies, and displaying them with timestamps.

Implement add comment functionality for the blog using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery, with client-side validation, success and error messages, and dynamic AJAX-based updating of the comment list after submission.

Learn to implement reply to comments functionality in a PHP MySQL blog with jQuery, adding a reply form, dynamic UI, and backend handling.

Add a search form and a query input to enable blog searches. Fetch results with a like-based join of blog_tags and blog_post and display search results.

Deploy your php blog using free 000webhost hosting, upload files to public_html, and create the blogs database in phpmyadmin. Import data and verify the live site.

Celebrate completing the course and start building your own blog projects with support to answer questions. Share your results and explore the instructor's other courses to build your online presence.