CodeHub is a developer-focused discussion forum built with CodeIgniter 4, designed to provide a collaborative platform for sharing technical knowledge, discussing programming topics, and exchanging solutions within the developer community.

The platform enables users to create discussions, share technical insights, interact with other developers, and discover relevant topics through categorized discussions and tags.

Key Features

• Discussion Management: Create, edit, save drafts, and publish technical discussions.
• Nested Reply System: Engage in threaded conversations with parent-child reply structures.
• Category & Tag Management: Organize discussions into categories and searchable tags.
• User Authentication: Secure registration, login, and role-based access for administrators and users.
• User Profiles: Customizable profiles with avatar uploads, banner images, and social media links.
• Interactive Engagement: Like discussions and replies, report inappropriate content, and receive notifications.
• Advanced Search: Discover discussions using keyword searches, category filters, tags, and sorting options.
• Content Moderation: Administrative dashboard for managing users, discussions, categories, tags, and reports.

Technical Highlights

• Developed using CodeIgniter 4 with an MVC architecture.
• Implemented relational database structures with foreign key constraints and polymorphic relationships.
• Integrated TinyMCE for rich text discussion editing.
• Applied HTML Purifier to sanitize user-generated content and mitigate XSS vulnerabilities.
• Implemented session-based discussion view tracking.
• Integrated Prism.js for code syntax highlighting.
• Used Bootstrap 4, jQuery, and various frontend libraries to build interactive interfaces.

CodeHub demonstrates full-stack web development capabilities through its discussion management workflows, database architecture, authentication, content security, and administrative functionality.