# Papa-Kind-Treff – Project Context

Updated: 2026-08-03

## Summary
Papa-Kind-Treff is a PHP-based platform for fathers. Core areas are local events, appointments, and meetups, a community forum, member profiles with optional child information, and a moderation/admin area.

## Key Product Decisions
- Main navigation remains intentionally compact: `Home`, `Event Search`, `Community`.
- `Events` is the primary product term across the UI.
- Secondary wording is used only in SEO and explanatory copy.
- The community is hierarchical: categories -> boards -> threads -> posts.
- Moderation is separated from the normal community frontend.
- Location features are important for local discovery.

## Account / Member Area
- Profile menu currently contains `Profile`, `Children`, `Events`, `Community`, `Settings`, `Logout`.
- Children can be created, edited, and deleted.
- If a birth date is set, age is calculated automatically and updated later when needed.
- Account email is encrypted application-side and addressed through a separate HMAC lookup hash.
- Profile address can be completed via address search or browser-based location import.

## Technical Frame
- custom front controller in `public/index.php`
- templates under `partials/`
- business logic under `src/App/`
- global frontend mainly via `public/assets/js/app.js` and `public/assets/css/app.css`

## Maintenance Note
- Whenever one of these files changes, the matching files in `Internal/de/` and `Internal/en/` must be kept aligned.
- The root `README.md` acts as the startup document for new chats and should be reviewed alongside major context changes.