📘 Athena Course Registration Portal

A robust web-based course registration portal offering a seamless experience for administrators and students. Administrators can effortlessly add courses, and students can view and register for these courses, all in one place.

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication:

  • Secure registration and profile creation.
  • Passwords are safely hashed using bcrypt.
  • Individualized login granting access to personal profiles and course registrations.

• 📚 Course Management:

  • Exclusive course addition rights for administrators.
  • A visual display of available courses for students with an intuitive "Add Course" button.
  • Real-time fetch of course details from the integrated database.

• 💽 Database Integration:

  • Seamlessly integrates with MySQL.
  • Dedicated connection to the athena_schema database.

• 🌐 Dynamic Content Generation:

  • Leverages cheerio for on-the-fly generation of course lists.

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🔧 Technical Stack

• Backend: Express.js
• Frontend: EJS
• Database: MySQL
• Password Security: bcrypt
• Session Handling: express-session
• Additional Libraries: cheerio, cors, body-parser

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📂 Directory Structure

• Static Assets: Sourced from public & client/src/login.
• Dynamic Content: Found in client/src/login/course.html.

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🛠 Setup & Execution

1. 🔽 Install necessary dependencies:

   npm install

2. 🔄 Ensure MySQL is active and athena_schema is ready.

3. ▶ Start the application:

   node combined_app.js

🌍 The portal is now live on port 3006.

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⚠ Security Alert: Always prioritize safety! Refrain from storing database credentials in the source code. Opt for environment variables or an external configuration file.

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License 📜

📌 This project is licensed under the MIT License