A full news and media publishing platform for Dubai, covering World, Politics, Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports and UAE news — built with a React frontend and a PHP + MySQL backend, with an editorial CMS for reporters and desk editors.
Client
Daily Times UAE
Year
2023
Category
News & Media Platform
Daily Times is a Dubai-based newspaper company registered under DED (Reg No: 1178444) and regulated by the Media regulator of Dubai. They needed a modern digital home for their editorial coverage across World, Politics, Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports and UAE news.
We built the reader-facing site as a fast React single-page application — with a category grid, featured hero stories, breaking news ticker, article detail pages, related content and social sharing. Every page is tuned for readability and mobile-first news consumption.
On the backend, a custom PHP API on MySQL powers a full editorial CMS — reporters can draft stories, upload media, assign categories and tags, schedule publishing and track article performance. Roles for reporters, editors and admins keep the newsroom workflow clean.
Dedicated sections for World, Politics, Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports and UAE, each with featured stories and quick navigation.
A cinematic homepage hero that surfaces the day’s top story, with rich imagery and instant deep-links into category pages.
Chronological feed of the latest stories across every desk — timestamps, category badges and rapid updates as news breaks.
Custom PHP admin for reporters and editors — draft, edit, schedule, categorise, tag and publish stories with media uploads.
Reporter, editor and admin roles with fine-grained permissions — clean workflow from draft to review to publish.
One-tap sharing to Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Instagram — with rich Open Graph previews.
Full-text search across the archive with filters by category, date range and tag — powered by MySQL full-text indexes.
Reading experience tuned for mobile, tablet and desktop — large tap targets, comfortable line-length and dark-friendly imagery.
Article structured data, Open Graph tags, XML sitemaps and news-specific SEO for maximum discoverability on Google News.
Reader-facing news frontend
Editorial CMS & content API
Articles, categories, media & users
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