Papa-Kind-Treff – Project Context

Updated: 2026-08-05

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.
The existing events logic remains active for now, but future growth should move toward a broader listing, place, and occurrence model.
Site admins get a dedicated system section for global operating and service flags.

Account / Member Area

Profile menu currently contains Profile, Children, Events, Outings, 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.
The Events area is limited again to real own events and event participations.
The Events area now also provides a manual ICS export and a personal subscribable calendar feed for all own events and event participations.
Places and event-like outing targets were moved for now into a separate member-area section Outings.
The Events input flow should stay as simple as possible and therefore only shows fields relevant for real scheduled events.
Categories in the member area are handled via a search input with existing suggestions and automatic creation when needed.
Own events support category, optional image, a clear with children yes/no field, optional capacity, and direct map/address synchronization.

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

New Expansion Stage: Listings and Places

New table base: listing_places, listings, listing_occurrences, listing_prices, listing_benefits, listing_categories
Goal: later distinguish between own event, partner offer, general place, and editorial event entry
Google is not integrated productively yet; the system is only being prepared for it via settings and data fields

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.

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