Porichoy

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Description

Porichoy (Bengali for 'Identity') is a dynamic, modular, and highly customizable personal portfolio application built with the Laravel framework. It provides a robust platform for professionals of any field—developers, designers, writers, and more—to showcase their skills, experience, and projects to the world.

With a powerful admin panel and a flexible, profession-aware module system, Porichoy allows you to build and manage a personal website that truly represents your unique identity.

Features

Porichoy comes packed with features designed for flexibility and ease of use:

• Powerful Admin Dashboard: A secure and comprehensive backend to manage all content, settings, and modules.
• Dynamic Theming: Instantly change the look and feel of your entire portfolio. The system is built to support multiple themes, allowing you to switch designs in a single click.
• Complete Module System: Your portfolio is built from modules. You can easily enable, disable, and reorder sections like:
  • Education
  • Work Experience
  • Projects
  • Skills
  • Testimonials
  • Blog / Articles
  • ...and more.
• Profession-Based Configuration: Tailor your portfolio's structure based on your career. A developer might want to highlight a GitHub repository, while a photographer might prioritize a gallery module.
• Built-in Contact Form: A ready-to-use contact form that sends messages directly to you, with validation and spam protection (if configured).
• SEO Optimized: Clean markup and management for meta titles and descriptions to help you get discovered on search engines.
• Fully Responsive: All default themes are designed to look great on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
• Social Media Integration: Easily link and display your profiles from platforms like LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, etc.

Installation Guide

You can get your own instance of Porichoy up and running by following these steps.

Prerequisites

• PHP >= 8.2
• Composer
• Node.js & NPM
• MySQL

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yenHunter/Porichoy.git
   cd porichoy

2. Install PHP dependencies:

   composer install

3. Create your environment file:

   cp .env.example .env

4. Generate your application key:

   php artisan key:generate

5. Configure your .env file: Open the .env file and set up your database connection (DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD) and other settings.

   Important: For the contact form and spam protection, add your Google ReCAPTCHA v3 keys. You can get these from the Google ReCAPTCHA.

   # .env
   
   APP_URL=http://your-domain.com
   
   DB_CONNECTION=mysql
   DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
   DB_PORT=3306
   DB_DATABASE='your-db-name'
   DB_USERNAME='your-db-user'
   DB_PASSWORD='your-db-password'
   
   # Add your Google ReCAPTCHA keys here
   RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=YOUR_RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY_HERE
   RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY_HERE

6. Run database migrations: This will create all the necessary tables in your database.

   php artisan migrate --seed

7. Serve the application:

   php artisan serve

Your application should now be running at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

About Me

I’m a passionate web developer with experience in building scalable and secure applications. I specialize in Laravel, Django, JavaScript and server management with Nginx. I enjoy automating workflows, optimizing performance, and deploying modern web solutions on VPS environments. I believe in clean code, continuous learning, and sharing knowledge through open-source contributions.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you'd like to help improve Porichoy, please feel free to fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request.

License

This project is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.