Make book publishing more simplified and more democratised.
Built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

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Facts

• Introduction
• Story Behind
• Features
• Feedback
• Dependencies
• Contributors
• Development / Installation Process
• Contributors
• Supporters, Backers and Sponsors (Acknowledgments)
• Copyright

This is StoryDrop. A revolutionizing web platform for publishing books (with .pdf file type) online.

Many manuscripts from authors, writers and creators are often rejected by publishers day by day:

Copyright © Charles M. Schulz / United Feature Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved.

The StoryDrop platform allows everyone publishing their OWN story and (e-)books effortless and hurdles-free.

The platform maintainer or the person/team/company who/that is responsible for running the platform review(s) newly uploaded books in the uploads/new/ folder. After a fast and open verification process the books are going to be published online at uploads/verified/.

No more publishing companies or dastardly editors that are greedy for money!

StoryDrop makes book publishing more simplified and more democratised. - Suriyaa R. Sundararuban (creator of StoryDrop)

StoryDrop is the final project made by Suriyaa R. Sundararuban (@SuriyaaKudoIsc) - a student at the Technische Universität München (TUM) - for Harvard's CS50x 2018 course.

• Custom 404 error page at http(s)://www.your-storydrop-domain.tld/errors/404.html
• Landing page at http(s)://www.your-storydrop-domain.tld/
• Contact page at http(s)://www.your-storydrop-domain.tld/contact.php
• Upload page with HTML form for uploading .pdf files at http(s)://www.your-storydrop-domain.tld/upload.php
• Showcase site at http(s)://www.your-storydrop-domain.tld/showcase.php
• ASCII HTML Art Code in includes/header.php

Feel free to send me feedback on Twitter or file an issue. Feature requests are always welcome. If you wish to contribute, please take a quick look at the guidelines!

If there's anything you'd like to chat about, please send me an e-mail!

• Uniform Server (ZeroXIII)
• Dropzone.js
• QuickGallery (commit 8b70912)
• PHP Contact Form
• all-contributors-cli (v5.4.0)

• Download the latest Uniform Server.
• Extract the installation file.
• Clone this project: git clone https://github.com/SuriyaaKudoIsc/storydrop.git
• Put this folder in the www/ directory of the Uniform Server.
• Run the UniController.exe file in the root directory (on Windows), start the Apache & MySQL servers.
• 🎉 It works!
• 📝 Start contributing...

• Download the latest Uniform Server.
• Extract the installation file.
• Download this project.
• Put the storydrop folder in the www/ directory of the Uniform Server.
• Run the UniController.exe file in the root directory (on Windows) and start the Apache & MySQL servers.
• 😃 Nice. Go to http://localhost/
• 🎉 You run your own local StoryDrop platform!

Automate adding contributor acknowledgements:

npm run contributors:add -- SuriyaaKudoIsc doc
npm run contributors:generate

Add/update contributors (View the Emoji key spec here):

# Add new contributor <username>, who made a contribution of type <contribution>
all-contributors add <username> <contribution>
# Example:
all-contributors add SuriyaaKudoIsc code,doc

Check for missing contributors:

all-contributors check

This project follows the all-contributors specification and is brought to you by these awesome contributors.

Thanks for supporting me:

edX.org (MOOC)	Technische Universität München	Harvard University	David J. Malan (Harvard's CS50 Professor)
Financial Assistance	For being a TUM student	Make CS50 available worldwide	Explains very comprehensible

Copyright 2018-present Suriyaa R. Sundararuban (Graduate of CS50x 2018)