How to create a website like Netflix using php

Table of content

1. About the movie subscription website script
2. Features of the movie subscription website script.
   1. Admin Panel
      1. Actor
      2. Genre
      3. Director
      4. Membership package
   2. User Side features
3. Script Include
4. Requirement
5. Step by step to run the script (installation)
   1. Video tutorial
   2. For xampp
      1. Creating a database
      2. After creating a database
   3. Live server
      1. Creating a database
      2. After creating a database
6. Screenshots

About the movie subscription website script

This php project called the movie subscription website script is a script that can be used to create a movie subscription platform or website like Netflix where people pay to watch movies with a monthly subscription plan. It is a content management system (CMS) that allows the administrators to manage or modify the site easily without coding. Visitors can register, login and can search for a movie and watch or add to his or her list for later watch. It has great performance, very fast to load, responsive, quality design. With this script you can start your own movie subscription site.

Features of the movie subscription website script.

Admin Panel

1. Dashboard: View the website summary like total movies, total TV series, total episodes, registered users, sales, etc
2. Movies: Here you can manage all movies that have been created, create movies, filter by actors, edit, delete, add subtitle file. You can create a movie by clicking on create movie and follow suit.
3. Manage TV series: Here you can manage all TV series, create a TV series, edit, delete, search series by filter. It features are below:
   1. Create series
   2. Manage series
   3. Delete series
   4. Visit series
   5. Delete seasons
   6. Manage seasons
   7. Delete episodes
   8. Create episodes
   9. Create seasons
   10. Manage episodes
4. Manage Seasons & Episodes: here you can create seasons to TV series and add episodes to the seasons. In other to create a season and episode, you must first create a TV series.
5. Country: Add a new language, edit and delete a language.
6. Users: Manage all users. Here you can create a new user, edit or delete existing users.
7. Reports: Manage all customer subscription & payment reports; you can filter by date for easy search if reports are large.
8. Add-ons: Here you can manage available add-on, or install add-on through the add-on manger.
9. Account: Edit admin profile like admin name, email and also change password.
10. General settings:
    1. website settings: here you can change website name, website email, website language, website theme, change cookie status, change cookie note, add Recaptcha to your site for security, Change website logo, edit website pages like privacy policy, cookie policy page, website refund policy, etc.
    2. Payment settings: change system currency to preferred one, which includes all currency like USD, EUR, AUD, etc. You can also add different payment gateways like PayPal, stripe.
    3. Language settings: here you can add a new language, delete language, or edit each language phrase.
    4. Edit SMTP Settings: modify SMTP settings like protocol, SMTP host, SMTP port, SMTP username, SMTP password.
    5. Manage FAQS: Here you can add new frequently asked questions and answers for visitors to your site.
11. About

Actor

Here you will see all movie actors on your site; you can edit, delete or create a new actor. To create an actor:  

1. Login to admin panel
2. Click on the actor tab
3. Click create actor
4. Then input the actor name and select the actor image
5. And click on create

Genre

View the entire list of all genre you have created on your site like “action, romantic, cartoons, etc”. You can delete, edit a genre. To create a genre, click on create genre and type the genre name then click on create.

Director

See the list of all movie directors that is on your site. You can edit, delete or create a director.

To create a director:

1. Go to admin panel
2. Click on the Directors tab
3. Click on create director
4. Type the director name and select the director image
5. Then click on create

Membership package

Here you can manage all membership plans, edit, etc. this script comes with three (3) membership package plan which are BASIC, STANDARD and PREMIUM. Each one has it own price tag with more features in higher plan. You can edit any of the packages and change the package price, package name, make it active or inactive.

User Side features

1. User dashboard
2. Login and registration system
3. Browse movies
4. Filter movies by cast when searching for movies
5. Add movies to your list
6. Watch movie trailer
7. Manage your profile
8. Watch movies

Script includes

1. Php
2. MySQL database
3. And more…

Server Requirements

Your server must have the following before this script can be installed. Almost all servers already have them installed.

1. Tested on PHP 7.3.26
2. Curl enabled required
3. MYSQL 5.6 +
4. Web-server: Apache 2.4
5. XAMPP

Step by step to run the script (installation)

In other to run this script we need a local host server already installed in your pc like e.g. XAMPP or you have purchased a live hosting plan.

Video Demonstration

watch video for easy installation

For xampp

(You need to watch the video below for a better installation)

1. Scroll down and click on the download button.
2. Extract the source code.
3. Copy the extracted folder and paste in C:/xampp/htdocs.
4. Open XAMPP control panel and start Apache and MySql.
5. Open your browse.

Creating a database

1. Browse this path “http://localhost/phpmyadmin/” on your browser.
2. Click on New seen on the left hand side of your screen.
3. Then create a database with any name or use “netflix_db” and click on create.

After creating a database

1.  Then Open your web browser and go to the path. E.g. “http://localhost/netflix”
2.   Then click on start installation process.

   

3.   Click on continue
4.  Fill in the details below, like the
   • database name – Netflix_db
   • username – root
   • password – (put your xampp password or leave empty)
   • database host – localhost

     

5.  Click on continue
6. Then click on install
7. Another page would open showing Congratulations!! The installation was successful.
8. Here you will have to fill in your admin details and site details like
   • System name – (preferred name)
   • Admin name
   • Admin email
   • Then add any password of your choice
9. Click on set me up
10. Then click on login

For live servers

Creating a database

1. Scroll down and click on download.
2. Extract the file.
3. Copy the extracted files.
4. Go to your hosting platform and login to your cpanel.
5. Go to your control Panel menu and Click MySQL® Databases.
6. Create a new Database.
7. Then Add a New User.
8. Then you Add User To Database,
9. Set User Permissions

After creating a database

1. Go to your Control panel, then go to file manager.
2. Open  Public_html and upload the files or paste the file we copied after extraction.

ZIP PASSWORD: www.victorsspace.com.ng

Screenshots