MakeYou - Short Video Platform PHP Script

MakeYou is a complete, production-ready short video sharing platform inspired by TikTok. Built with PHP 8, MySQL, and vanilla JavaScript — no framework dependency. Clean MVC architecture, fully responsive dark UI, and ready to deploy in 5 minutes.

★ LIVE DEMO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://makeyou.w-co.in/ Username: admin Password: 12345678

★ WHAT MAKES MAKEYOU SPECIAL? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Pure PHP — No Laravel, No CodeIgniter, No framework. Just clean, fast PHP 8 code • Zero JavaScript frameworks — Vanilla JS only, lightweight & fast • Mobile-first dark theme UI with TikTok-style vertical swipe feed • Complete user system with Google OAuth social login • Powerful admin panel with real-time analytics • Auto video sync from YouTube via API (CRON based) • Built-in monetization system supporting 5+ ad networks • Secure: CSRF protection, XSS sanitization, bcrypt passwords, prepared statements • Easy to customize — well-organized MVC structure with comments

★ WHAT'S INCLUDED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Complete PHP source code (no encrypted/encoded files) • MySQL database schema (single SQL import) • Full documentation (README + inline code comments) • .htaccess for clean URLs (Apache mod_rewrite) • CRON script for automated video sync • Ready to deploy on any shared/VPS hosting

Features

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• TikTok-Style Vertical Swipe Video Feed — Full-screen videos with vertical scroll navigation, infinite loading with AJAX pagination • Multi-Source Video Player — Supports YouTube embeds, local MP4/WebM uploads with native HTML5 player • Video Filters & Sorting — Filter by: Newest, Popular (most views), Trending (most likes), Longest, Shortest duration • Category System — Videos organized by custom categories, filter feed by category • Source Filter — Filter videos by source: YouTube, Local uploads • Search System — Real-time search by video title, tags, and category name • Like System — One-click like with instant count update (AJAX, no reload) • View Counter — Auto-increment views when video plays (tracked per session) • Share Functionality — Share videos via direct URL with video parameter (?v=ID) • SEO-Friendly URLs — Clean URLs with Apache mod_rewrite (.htaccess) • Fully Mobile Responsive — Works perfectly on all screen sizes • Dark Theme UI — Complete dark mode throughout the entire platform • Video Share Links — Each video has a unique shareable URL for social media

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• Email Registration & Login — Username + email + password with validation • Google OAuth Login — One-click Google sign-in (auto-creates account) • Forgot Password — Email-based password reset with secure token (1-hour expiry) • Reset Password — Token-validated password change form • Remember Me — 30-day persistent login using secure hashed tokens (auto-login) • User Profiles — Public profile page with avatar, bio, videos, stats • Follow/Unfollow System — Follow other creators, followers/following count • Blue Badge Verification — Users can apply for verification, admin approves • Avatar Upload — Profile picture upload (supports JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, max 5MB) • Bio & Display Name — Editable profile settings • User Dashboard — Personal stats: total videos, likes, views, followers, following • Notifications Inbox — Real-time notifications for likes, follows, video publishes • Video Upload — Upload MP4/WebM videos with custom thumbnail, caption, category • CSRF Protection — All forms protected with CSRF tokens • Session Security — Secure cookies, httponly, samesite=Lax

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• Admin Dashboard — Total videos count, per-source breakdown (YouTube/Local), today's sync stats, recent sync logs • Videos Manager — View all videos with pagination (20 per page), add/edit/delete videos • Users Manager — View all registered users, edit user details (username, email, role, password), ban/unban users, delete users, toggle verification badge • Activity Monitor — Real-time online users (active in last 5 mins), today's stats (views, likes, uploads, logins), unique visitors count, full activity log (last 50 actions) • Verification Manager — View all badge requests, approve/reject verification applications, see user details (email, followers, avatar) • Ads Manager — Create banner ads and video ads, paste any ad network script (Adsterra, PropellerAds, Monetag, Google AdSense, custom HTML/JS), enable/disable ads globally, track impressions and clicks per ad, header script injection for ad networks • Pages CMS — Edit dynamic pages: Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, About Us, Contact, activate/deactivate pages, WYSIWYG content editing • Site Settings — Site title & description, YouTube API key configuration, SMTP settings (host, port, username, password, encryption, from email/name), Google OAuth settings (client ID, secret, redirect URI), enable/disable Google login • Video Sync — YouTube video sync via API (search by keywords), sync runs via CRON (every 15 minutes), sync logs with success/fail counts, duplicate detection (never imports same video twice) • Role-Based Access — Admin vs User role separation, admin-only routes protected

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• Banner Ads — Display banner ads in the video feed (overlay style) • Full-Screen Video Ads — Show video/interstitial ads between content • Ad Script Support — Paste any ad network code: Adsterra, PropellerAds, Monetag, Google AdSense, or custom JS/HTML • Header Script — Global header ad script injection • Impression Tracking — Auto-count ad impressions • Click Tracking — Track ad clicks • Enable/Disable — Toggle all ads on/off from admin panel

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• MVC Architecture — Controllers, Models, Helpers, Views separated cleanly • PDO Database — Prepared statements for all queries (SQL injection safe) • PSR-4 Autoloader — Auto-loads classes from controllers/, models/, helpers/ • REST API — JSON API endpoints for videos, likes, views, follow, notifications, profile, upload, admin actions • SMTP Mailer — Built-in SMTP email sender using PHP sockets (no PHPMailer dependency), supports TLS/SSL • CRON Jobs — Automated video sync script (cron/sync.php) • XSS Protection — htmlspecialchars() helper function for all output • CSRF Tokens — Server-generated tokens on all mutation forms • Bcrypt Passwords — password_hash() with PASSWORD_BCRYPT • Error Logging — Custom log_message() function, logs to app/storage/logs/app.log • Rate Limiting — File-based rate limit cache • Auto-Detect Base URL — Works in subdirectory or root domain automatically • No External Dependencies — Zero Composer packages, zero npm, zero frameworks

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher (tested on PHP 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4) • MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+ • Apache Web Server with mod_rewrite module enabled • PHP Extensions Required: cURL, mbstring, PDO, PDO_MySQL • Minimum 50MB disk space • Any shared hosting, VPS, or dedicated server • Works with: cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, or manual server setup • Local development: XAMPP, WAMP, LAMP, Laragon all supported

OPTIONAL (for full functionality): • SMTP credentials (Gmail, SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.) — for email features • YouTube Data API v3 key — for video sync (free: 10,000 units/day) • Google Cloud OAuth credentials — for Google social login

Instructions

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INSTALLATION GUIDE (5 Minutes) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

STEP 1: UPLOAD FILES • Upload all files to your web server document root or subdirectory • Works on any hosting: Shared hosting (cPanel), VPS (Ubuntu/CentOS), Dedicated • For local testing: Place in htdocs (XAMPP) or www (WAMP) folder

STEP 2: CREATE DATABASE • Create a new MySQL database via phpMyAdmin or command line • Import the schema file: - Via phpMyAdmin: Select database → Import → Choose database/schema.sql → Go - Via CLI: mysql -u root -p your_database < database/schema.sql

STEP 3: CONFIGURE DATABASE CONNECTION • Open file: config/config.php • Edit these lines: define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'); ← Your database host define('DB_PORT', '3306'); ← Your database port define('DB_NAME', 'your_db_name'); ← Your database name define('DB_USER', 'your_username'); ← Your database username define('DB_PASS', 'your_password'); ← Your database password • The SITE_URL is auto-detected — no manual configuration needed!

STEP 4: SET FILE PERMISSIONS • Set write permissions on upload & storage folders: chmod 777 public/uploads/ chmod 777 public/uploads/videos/ chmod 777 public/uploads/thumbnails/ chmod 777 public/uploads/avatars/ chmod 777 app/storage/cache/ chmod 777 app/storage/logs/ • On shared hosting: Use File Manager → Permissions → 777

STEP 5: CREATE ADMIN ACCOUNT • Open in browser: http://yoursite.com/admin/sign... • Fill in: username, email, password • Then run this SQL query in phpMyAdmin: UPDATE admins SET role = 'admin' WHERE id = 1; • Now login at: http://yoursite.com/login

STEP 6: CONFIGURE SETTINGS (Optional) • Go to Admin Panel → Settings • YouTube Sync: Paste your YouTube Data API v3 key • Email: Set SMTP host, port, username, password, encryption (TLS/SSL) • Google Login: Set Client ID, Client Secret, Redirect URI • Get YouTube API key: https://console.cloud.google.c... • Get Google OAuth: https://console.cloud.google.c...

STEP 7: SETUP CRON JOB (Optional) • For automatic video sync every 15 minutes: */15 * * * * php /full/path/to/cron/sync.php > /dev/null 2>&1 • On cPanel: Go to Cron Jobs → Add command above • This will auto-import new YouTube videos based on your keywords

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TROUBLESHOOTING: • 404 errors? Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled (a2enmod rewrite && service apache2 restart) • Cannot upload? Check folder permissions (chmod 777) • Emails not sending? Verify SMTP credentials in Admin → Settings • Google login not working? Check redirect URI matches exactly in Google Console