ManiPics is a professional stock photo sharing portal built with PHP 8+, MySQL/MariaDB, Bootstrap 5, PDO, and clean URL routing. It is designed for photographers, creators, local media, tourism platforms, educational users, bloggers, designers, and businesses who want to create a photo sharing platform like Pexels with original branding and local content.
The script includes photographer registration, portfolio profiles, secure image upload, automatic image resizing, photo search, category browsing, tag pages, download options, likes, favorites, follow system, reporting system, admin approval, blog management, static pages, ad placements, SEO meta tags, schema markup, sitemap, and secure upload protection.
This project is suitable for shared hosting, cPanel, Hostinger, Apache servers, and does not require Laravel, Node.js, or any API key.
Key Features
- PHP 8+ and MySQL/MariaDB based website
- Bootstrap 5 responsive frontend
- Clean URL routing using
.htaccess - Photographer registration and dashboard
- Secure image upload system
- Image resizing using GD Library
- Photo approval and rejection system
- Admin control panel
- Categories and tags management
- Search by title, description, category, tags, location, and photographer
- Likes, favorites, follows, and downloads
- Report photo feature
- Blog and static page management
- Advertisement placement manager
- SEO meta tags and canonical URLs
- Open Graph and JSON-LD schema
- Dynamic sitemap
- Upload folder security protection
- Manipur and Northeast India themed demo content
Technology Stack
- Backend: PHP 8+
- Database: MySQL / MariaDB
- Frontend: Bootstrap 5, HTML5, CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript
- Server: Apache with mod_rewrite
- Image Processing: PHP GD Library
- Security: PDO, CSRF protection, MIME checking, XSS escaping
Best For
- Stock photo websites
- Free image download portals
- Photographer portfolio platforms
- Tourism photo gallery websites
- Local culture and heritage image portals
- Creative community websites
- Media and design resource websites
- Educational image library websites
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