atakanozbancom/README.md

# atakanozban.com

The source code for my personal portfolio website: an ASP.NET MVC 5 site with a small
custom admin panel for managing projects, affiliate links, social icons and the site
wallpaper, plus English/Turkish localization.

## Features

- Public site: home, about, my projects (with an image/iframe carousel per project),
  affiliate links, dynamic social icons in the footer, and a changeable background wallpaper.
- Admin panel (`/admin`) protected by Forms Authentication:
  - My Projects: create/edit posts with EN/TR translations and a media manager
    (upload images or embed iframes, drag-free reordering via a sort order field).
  - Affiliate Links: create/edit links with a logo, title, description and EN/TR translations.
  - Social Icons: manage the icon row shown in the site footer (Font Awesome classes + URLs).
  - Wallpaper: upload a new background image for the whole site, or reset to the default.
  - Image uploads everywhere support both the regular file picker **and** pasting an
    image straight from the clipboard (Ctrl+V).
- English / Turkish localization via `.resx` resource files and a culture cookie.

## Tech stack

- ASP.NET MVC 5 / .NET Framework 4.7.2
- Entity Framework 6 (Code First, but with automatic migrations disabled — see
  [Database setup](#database-setup) below)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Bootstrap 5.3.3 and Font Awesome 6 (loaded from CDN)

## Prerequisites

- Windows with [Visual Studio 2019+](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/) (the ".NET desktop
  development" / "ASP.NET and web development" workload) or MSBuild + IIS/IIS Express
- SQL Server (LocalDB, SQL Server Express, or a full instance)
- (Optional) An FTP/hosting environment if you want to deploy it somewhere other than IIS Express

## Getting started

### 1. Clone and restore packages

```bash
git clone <this-repo-url>
cd atakanozbancom
```

Open `atakanozbancom.sln` in Visual Studio. NuGet packages will restore automatically on
build (or run `nuget restore atakanozbancom.sln` from a Developer Command Prompt).

### 2. Database setup

This project uses EF6 Code First **with `Database.SetInitializer<Context>(null)`**, meaning
Entity Framework will never create or alter tables for you — the schema is managed by hand.

1. Create an empty database (SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio, or `sqlcmd`):

   ```sql
   CREATE DATABASE atakanozbancomdb;
   ```

2. Run [`database/schema.sql`](database/schema.sql) against that database. It creates every
   table the app needs (admins, projects, affiliate links, social icons, site settings) and
   inserts one seed admin account (`admin` / `change-this-password`).

3. **Change that seed password** (see [Security notes](#security-notes) — logins currently
   compare passwords as plain text, so don't reuse a real password here).

### 3. Configure `Web.config`

Open `Web.config` and update the `connectionStrings` section to point at your SQL Server
instance:

```xml
<connectionStrings>
  <add name="Context" connectionString="Data Source=YOUR_SERVER\INSTANCE;Initial Catalog=atakanozbancomdb;Integrated Security=true;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
```

Then generate your own `<machineKey />` (see the comment above `<customErrors>` in
`Web.config` for a couple of ways to do this) and paste it into `<system.web>`. This keeps
authentication cookies and ViewState valid across app restarts/deployments — don't skip it,
and don't reuse a sample key you find online.

### 4. Run it

Press F5 in Visual Studio (or `Ctrl+F5` to skip the debugger). The site starts at the URL
shown in the IIS Express system tray icon / Visual Studio's toolbar. Log in at `/login`
with the admin account you created above, then manage content from `/admin`.

## Project structure

```
Controllers/            MVC controllers (public site + admin panel)
Models/classes/         Entity Framework models, view models, helpers
Views/                  Razor views, organized by controller
App_GlobalResources/    English (.resx) and Turkish (.tr-TR.resx) translation strings
App_Start/              Routing, bundling and filter configuration
Content/uploads/        User-uploaded images (logos, project media, wallpaper) — gitignored
database/schema.sql     Full database schema + seed admin account
web_atakanozbancom/     Static assets (CSS/JS/images) for the public site
```

## Uploaded content

Anything uploaded through the admin panel (project media, affiliate link logos, the
wallpaper) is written to folders under `Content/uploads/`. Those folders are tracked with
a `.gitkeep` placeholder but their contents are gitignored, since uploaded files are
runtime data, not source code.

## Security notes

This project was open-sourced as a personal portfolio/reference, not as a hardened
multi-tenant product. A few things worth knowing if you deploy your own copy or build on it:

- **Passwords are stored and compared in plain text** (`loginController`). If you plan to
  expose this beyond your own local use, replace this with a proper password hash
  (e.g. BCrypt/PBKDF2) before going live.
- The admin panel already includes `[Authorize]` on every management action and
  `[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]` on every state-changing POST, so it's protected against CSRF
  once you're logged in — but access is still gated by a single shared admin login rather
  than per-user accounts/roles.
- File uploads are restricted to an image extension allowlist (`.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.png`,
  `.webp`, `.gif`) — SVG is intentionally excluded since it can carry executable script.
- User-entered descriptions are HTML-encoded before rendering; a small `[text](https://...)`
  markdown-style syntax is the only way to add links, via `DescriptionFormatter`.

## License

MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).