DARPAN is a dynamic and user-friendly news publishing system built using PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS, and Bootstrap. This project allows admins to manage categories, users, and news posts through a secure admin dashboard, while users can browse categorized news, search content, and read full articles.

1. About the Project
2. Objectives
3. Features
4. Tech Stack
5. System Architecture
6. Installation Guide
7. Database Structure
8. Screenshots
9. Future Scope
10. Author

Darpan is a modern web-based news platform designed to deliver timely, accurate, and categorized news updates to users. It provides an intuitive browsing experience for readers and a robust management system for administrators. The system is developed following Agile methodology, ensuring scalability, usability, and flexibility.

The primary goals of this website include:

• Deliver accurate and timely news updates
• Offer a clean, user-friendly interface
• Ensure credibility and accuracy through structured data handling
• Support multimedia content (images, descriptions, categories)
• Facilitate easy content management via the admin panel
• Enable user & category management for admins
• Maintain responsive design for all devices

• Admin authentication

• Add / Edit / Delete:

  • News posts
  • Categories
  • Users (Editors)

• Manage website settings (logo, footer text)

• Pagination for posts, categories, and users

• Image upload for posts and logo

• View recent news
• Browse by category
• Browse news by specific author
• Read full articles
• Responsive UI
• Real-time updates
• Auto-generated navigation menu from categories

• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap

• PHP
• MySQL

• Git
• GitHub

• VS Code
• 4GB+ RAM, i3 processor or higher

Follow these steps to run the project locally:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/darpan-news-website.git

Place the folder inside:

C:/xampp/htdocs/

• Open phpMyAdmin
• Create a new database:

news-site

• Import the SQL file: news-site.sql

<?php
$hostname = "http://localhost/news-site";
$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","news-site")
or die("Connection failed : " . mysqli_connect_error());
?>

Open browser:

User site:

http://localhost/news-site

Admin login:

http://localhost/news-site/admin

• Add user comments on posts
• Add newsletter/email subscription
• Add video news support
• Move to MVC Framework (Laravel / CodeIgniter)
• Add dark/light mode
• Add trending news algorithm

Raj Amarjeet Chauhan