Ruby Scans

A manga/comic reading platform made with HTML5, CSS3, PHP, ajax, jQuery, Bootstrap 5. Hosted using GCP & Azure PHP instances and GCP MySQL instance.

How to use? (User)

Sign In & Login

1. First, if the user is new to the platform user has to create an account using Sign In > Sign In tab. Fill username, email, password and the captcha. If the process is successful, it will give a new account created notification.
2. Then, the user can login to his/her account using those credentials. After login a small pop up will appear from the bottom right saying the action was succesful.

Home Page

1. In the home screen there is a Most Popular section, which gives the most viewed mangas/comics of the platform.
2. After that there is a Recent Releases section, which shows the latest chapter releases of the platform.
3. On the left side of the Recent Releases there is a discord server status window and all category types of the platform.

Categoies Page

1. Categories page has all the categories of the platform divided into 3 by Status, Type & Genre.

Get Rubies Page (Actions are possible for logged in users ONLY)

1. Coupon Code section is to claim free rubies from the platform. Ex: Welcome50 will give 50 rubies to new users.
2. Toss a Coin will give 5 Rubies according to your sheer luck. (Resets after 24Hrs)
3. BlackJack is a simplified version of a full blacjack with only 3 rounds. You can win 5 rubies if you are better than the dealer. (Resets after 24Hrs)
4. Slots is a virtual slots machine. Coming soon!
5. Buy Rubies is to buy rubies if you are running out of Rubies. And that's how we keep up the server expences. So, help us out.

Profile Page (Actions are possible for logged in users ONLY)

1. Brief on the signed in user's profile including current ruby count, purchased magazines & wishlisted magazines.
2. Users can delete account using Delete Account button.

Contact Us Page

1. Contact us page has a brief description on the team & the platform.
2. Users can use the contact form to send a message to admins of the platform.
3. Also, users can join the discord channel by using the join discord link.

Search bar & Search Page

1. Users can search magazines using the search bar.
2. In search Page users can filter their search by Title, Author, Magazine Year, Sort, Publish Status, Type, Genre.

• By Clicking on a chapter or a magazine user can see details on the magazine and buy or wishlist a magazine.
• If the user has bought the series user can read all the chapters.
• When reading a chapter user can go to next or previous chapters using View Chapters button. By clicking on the magazine name button site will redirect to magazine details page. In the bottom of the page there is a Report This Chapter button to report errors in a chapter like images not loading, incorrect order or missing pages.
• Every chapter and magazine details page has a discussion panel in the bottom to discuss about the chapter or the magazine for users.

That's all for the users.

How to use? (Admin)

In order to login to admin panel, the admins has to go to SITE-URL/admin.php page. Then the user will be promted a login screen for admins. Enter Admin credentials to log in. (Admin credentials for demo purposes are username: admin & password: root)

Edit Magazine Section

• Can add new magazines to the site
• Edit/update existing magazines
• Delete existing magazines

Edit Magazine Chapters Section

• Can add new magazine chapters to the site
• Update existing chapters
• Delete existing chapters
• When adding image links, we used imgur to get image links. When adding image links to the field only the file name is added in a comma separated way. (Ex: https://i.imgur.com/YpvFyBz.png => YpvFyBz.png)

User Details Section

• A brief on the users
• Delete user accounts

Messages and Requests Section

• In chapter errors tab, these are user submitted errors of chapters from Report This Chapter button in magazine chapter page. By clicking on Mark as read message is marked read as an indicator that the error was fixed.
• In user messages tab, these messages are sent by users using the contact form. By clicking on Mark as read message is marked read.

Azure - http://ruby-scans-test.azurewebsites.net/ GCP - https://atomic-parity-338208.uc.r.appspot.com/