STEEMASK UPDATE: A decentralized question and answer website built on the STEEM Blockchain

What is the project about?

SteemAsk is a question and answer website that is been built to allow users ask both steem and non-steem related question while getting reply from other members of the community. Many steemit users especially newbies need guidance and most times they wish can get access to other members and ask question to help them be successful on steemit. SteemAsk provides the platform for this, and users can also search for questions to get quick answers. SteemAsk is the stackoverflow of the steem blockchain.

How does it work?

SteemAsk works exactly like every other question and answer forum, but on SteemAsk:

Users can upvote questions and answers they find really helpful.
Users can check payout for their and any other account
Users can trade Steem and SBD in the marketplace.

Previous Update

https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@profchydon/steemask-a-decentralized-question-and-answer-website-built-on-the-steem-blockchain

https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@profchydon/steemask-update-a-decentralized-question-and-answer-website-built-on-the-steem-blockchain

New Features

Users can now check both post, comment and total payout. This feature helps users keep track of their expected post, comment and total payout
Profile page now available: Users can now view their profile on steemAsk profile page.
Users can now view post payout for other users just by entering the required username.
steemAsk about us details now available. Thanks to a contributor @princekelly.
https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@princekelly/copywriting-for-steemask-about-us
steemAsk privacy policy details now available. Thanks to @edikanefanga for his contribution

How i implemented this

While User is logged in, it was easy to check for logged in user's payout by just sending the $_SESSION['username'] as a parameter to the function

public function getUserCommentData ($username)
{
  $query = urlencode('{"start_author":"'.$username.'", "limit": "100"}');
  $url = 'https://api.steemjs.com/get_discussions_by_comments?query='.$query;
  $json= file_get_contents($url);
  $data = json_decode($json,true);
  return $data;

}

Then, i called the getUserCommenData in another function to get User's comment payout.

public function payout ()
    {

      if (session_status () == PHP_SESSION_NONE) {
         session_start();
      }

      $username = $_SESSION['username'];

      $data['coinmarketcap'] = $this->coinmarketcap->getAllCoinDetails();
      $data['profile'] = $this->user->getUserBlogData($username);
      $data['comment'] = $this->user->getUserCommentData($username);

      return view ('pages.payout' , $data);

    }

To get post payout of user's not logged in, a username must be supplied and i made use of Laravel Route Model Binding Route::get('/payout/{username}', 'UsersController@notLoggedInPayout');

public function notLoggedInPayout ($username)
{

      $data['coinmarketcap'] = $this->coinmarketcap->getAllCoinDetails();
      $data['profile'] = $this->user->getUserBlogData($username);
      $data['comment'] = $this->user->getUserCommentData($username);

      return view ('pages.notloggedinpayout' , $data);

    }


public function payoutcheck ()
{

        if (isset($_POST['username'])) {

            return redirect("/payout/".$_POST['username']);

        }else {

            return redirect()->back();

        }

    }

<?php

     $total_price_comment = 0;
     $total_payout_in_sbd_comment = 0;
     $count_comment = 0;

     foreach ($comment as $key => $comment_data) {

        if( !($comment_data["pending_payout_value"] == "0.000 SBD")) {

          $price_comment = str_replace(" SBD", "", $comment_data["pending_payout_value"]);

          if (!empty($comment_data['beneficiaries'])) {

             $beneficiary_comment = $comment_data['beneficiaries'][0]['account'];
             $weight_comment = ($comment_data['beneficiaries'][0]["weight"]/10000);
             $price_after_beneficiary_deduction_comment  = $price_comment - ($price_comment * $weight_comment);
             $payout_in_sbd_comment  =  $price_after_beneficiary_deduction_comment * 0.375;
             $total_price_comment = $total_price_comment + $payout_in_sbd_comment;

          }else {

            $payout_in_sbd_comment  = $price_comment   * 0.375;
            $total_price_comment = $total_price_comment + $payout_in_sbd_comment;

          }

          $total_comment_payout_in_sbd = round($total_payout_in_sbd_comment + $payout_in_sbd_comment,2);
        }
      }
?>

<form class="form-group col-md-8 pull-right" action="/payoutcheck" method="post">

    {{ Csrf_field() }}

    <input class="form-control" type="text" name="username" value="" placeholder="Enter Username without @ to view for other users">

    <button class="btn btn-primary pull-right" type="submit" value="ok" name="check">Go</button>

</form>