✉️ Chat

Send and receive messages like a usual messenger

This is just a little school project, it is not production ready or finished in general.

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Features

• Register (register as a user)

• Login (login as a user)

• Protocol (protocol is ur in/outbox for messages, download messages)

• Chat (write messages in one to one design like most messengers)

Tech Stack

The application is built with PHP as front- and backend. MySQL is used to store userdata and the messages.

Installation

1. Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/jannesrudnick/chatty
    cd chatty

2. Edit environment variables

   Duplicate the env.example.php file, and save as env.php like:

   $_ENV["db_host"] = "localhost";
   $_ENV["db_user"] = "user";
   $_ENV["db_password"] = "secretpasswort";
   $_ENV["db_name"] = "database";

3. Setup MySQL

   Import the database.sql for example with phpMyAdmin to create the tables.

4. Serve php App

   Serve chatty for example with mamp on macOS or xampp on Windows.