Fan Hub Plus

A fandom community platform where fans read articles, explore characters, bookmark, rate and submit content, while admins review submissions through a secure dashboard.

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Inspiration

Fans are scattered across social apps, wikis and forums. Articles, character info, events and merchandise live in different places, and there is rarely a safe way for fans to contribute. We wanted one home for a fandom: organized, searchable and moderated. [Add one personal line here: your own fandom or why you picked this idea.]

What it does

Fan Hub Plus is a fandom community platform with three roles:

  • Visitors browse featured articles, character profiles, events and merchandise without an account.
  • Members sign up, verify their email, bookmark content, rate media, send feedback and submit their own fan content.
  • Admins manage everything from a secure dashboard: content, characters, merchandise, events, users, ratings and the activity log. They also review pending fan submissions before anything goes public.

How we built it

  • Backend: Laravel (PHP) with separate controllers for the Visitor, Member and Admin areas, plus JSON APIs behind each dashboard.
  • Database: MySQL with 28 tables and 3 views (bookmark counts, average media rating, pending submissions), covering users, profiles, categories, tags, articles with images and timelines, characters, merchandise, events, ratings, bookmarks and an activity log.
  • Frontend: HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a clean, colorful design and a single-page style member and admin dashboard.
  • Security: role-based middleware (admin only, active users only, verified email), an HTML sanitizer for user-submitted content, and a safe-URL validation rule for links.

Challenges we ran into

  • Designing one schema that supports articles, characters, merchandise, events and media without duplicating data.
  • Keeping user-submitted content safe, which led us to sanitize HTML and validate URLs.
  • Building a moderation flow where fan submissions are reviewed by admins before publishing.
  • [Add 1 real challenge you personally faced.]

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A complete working platform with three user roles, a moderated contribution pipeline, and a polished interface from public pages to the admin dashboard.

What we learned

How to structure a multi-role Laravel application, design a relational schema with views, and build secure, moderated user-generated content. [Add what you learned.]

What's next for Fan Hub Plus

Notifications, comments and discussion threads, search improvements, and more fandoms and categories.

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