FreeCodeTube - Yii2 Youtube Clone

The project was created while recording video for FreeCodeCamp

Features

• Login and Registration
• Email confirmation
• Upload videos
• Provide thumbnail, title, description, tags
• Status of the video: Published or Unlisted
• Dashboard with analitics:
  • Latest video
  • Number of total views
  • Number of total subscribers
  • Latest subscribers
• View videos
• Leave a like/dislike
• Find similar videos
• Channel page
• View videos only for specific channel
• Subscribe on channel or unsubscribe
• Sending email when user subscribes to channel
• Global search to search videos by title, description or tags
• History page

Demo

If you want to see working demo of the application click here

Installation

Requirements

The minimum requirement by this project template is that your Web server supports PHP 5.6.0.

Installing using Composer

Clone the repository from github.

git clone git@github.com:thecodeholic/Yii2-Youtube-Clone.git [YourDirectoryName]

The command installs the project in a directory named YourDirectoryName. You can choose a different directory name if you want.

Install dependencies

For this we need composer to be installed on our operating system. If you do not have Composer, follow the instructions in the Installing Yii section of the definitive guide to install it.

With Composer installed, navigate to the project folder from command line and run

composer install

Preparing application

Follow the steps from yii2 advanced template to prepare installation.

After doing all the steps from yii2 advanced template open common/config/params-local.php and add your frontend domain on key frontendUrl. Example:

return [
    'frontendUrl' => 'http://frontend.test/'
];