Hacker News clone in PHP

This is a clone of Hackernews written in PHP.

Features

• Submit stories or ask questions.
• Recursive comments
• Vote on questions and comments
• Stories are ranked based on user votes using an algorithm similar to hacker news ranking.

Screen shots

Front Page

Comments

System Requirements

This has been tested on

• PHP >= 5.2.X
• MySQL >= 5.6

##Installation

Installation requires access to a command line.

• Clone/download the repository
• Install dependencies

composer install

1. Rename config.ini.template to config.ini
2. Update config.ini with your database information

• Make sure the database already exists (this installation does not create the database)
• Make sure the db user has permission to create tables.

3. execute php install.php
4. edit your crontab and add cron.php to execute every 30minutes.

• Open crontab for editing

crontab -e

Add this line, with ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_INSTALL_FOLDER set correctly.

*/30 * * * * php /ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_INSTALL_FOLDER/cron.php

5. goto http://{{YOUR_WEBSITE}}/signup.php and create a new user:
6. Done. Start creating stories.

To Do

• Rank comments using the same time weighted algorithm as stories
• Change comment table structure to make it more efficient.

License

Hackernews is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.