Welcome to DLSU CommForum!

This online platform aims to address all the concerns, judgment, and comments made by the students and alumni while maintaining a healthy and non-toxic environment in which the Lasallian Core Values are portrayed. To run the web program, simply go to https://dlsu-commforum.onrender.com/ or follow the instructions found below for local deployment.

Disclaimer

This project was recently restored for frontend demonstration purposes; hence, some features are intentionally disabled. To access complete full-stack (but depracated) project, please check v.1.0 branch.

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Use GitBash or CMD to open the cloned repository.
3. Run npm i.
4. Run node index.js.
5. You're ready to go!

Heroku Link

• https://dlsu-comforum-mvc-s14gr1.herokuapp.com/

UML

Features of the Web Application

The web application is anchored towards four key indicators: Security, Simplicity, Reliability, and Completeness. To ensure the consistency of the web applications, the group decided to provide the following features based on the aforementioned key indicators:

Security

• Mandatory user registration.
• Community administrators, moderators, and contributors.
• Anti-discriminatory community guidelines (no cursing, etc).

Security

• User-friendly interface.
• Convenient menu navigation.
• Convenient log in - log out navigation.
• Convenient changing of password.
• Convenient post sectioning (college, course, professor).
• Convenient post and comment management.
• Convenient prof searching and filtering.
• College sorted professors.

Reliability

• Community Administrators are in charge of sanctioning users who goes against the community guidelines.
• Community Administrators are in charge of managing posts/reviews that goes against the community guidelines.
• Community Administrators are in charge of fixing review data (incorrect course/prof selected).

Completeness

• Sample list of professors under all seven Colleges.

Specific Features

• User Register

  • A user should be able to register an account with a name and ID number.

• User Log In

  • A user should be able to log in every time they want to access the web app with their account.

• User Logout

  • A user can log out of the account whenever the user wishes to log out.

• See College

  • A user can view or click which college they wish to visit and see information on the certain college.. (Example: Programming Professors, Math Professors, etc)

• See All Professors

  • A user can view all professors with the following information such as name, courses, and college.

• Search Professors/Subjects [^1]

  • A user can search for a certain professor by their name and/or subject that will show the matched post subject forum post and/or professor information.

• See Most Recent Reviews

  • The user can see all the recent posts on the homepage (limited to ten).

• Create Post

  • A user can post a review about a certain professor in the selected college and course chosen.

• Edit Post

  • A user can edit a post he/she posted.

• Delete Post

  • A user can delete posts he/she had already posted.

• Comment

  • A user can comment on a post posted by other users and/or his/her own post.

• Edit Comment

  • A user can edit a comment he/she posted.

• Delete Comment

  • A user can delete his/her own comment.