Song Registration Portal - Department of Cultural Affairs

About This Project

Delivered for Procons Infectic as a strategic government contract with the Department of Cultural Affairs, this project is a comprehensive, production-hardened song registration and archival platform that modernized legacy content workflows and introduced a resilient public-facing portal. The solution blends a performant Laravel + React portal for public submissions with a robust Joomla! CMS acting as the authoritative content source for administrative workflows, editorial publishing, and rich content presentation. I designed and implemented secure RESTful synchronization bridges and webhooks that ensure near-real-time consistency between the portal and Joomla!, allowing editorial teams to author content in the CMS while the portal consumes and renders that content with precise caching and invalidation rules. The system supports multi-step user registration, two-factor-capable authentication hooks, role-based admin approvals, staged moderation queues, and a detailed audit trail for every submission to meet government compliance requirements. Search and discovery were upgraded with indexed metadata, multi-faceted filtering, and relevance-weighted results. Accessibility, cross-browser compatibility, and responsive UI were implemented with Bootstrap and progressive enhancement techniques so the public portal remains usable on low-bandwidth devices. For production we automated CI/CD deployments into AWS with immutable releases, database migration scripts and backups, monitoring and alerting, and hardened input validation and sanitization to reduce attack surface. The project delivered a measurable improvement in submission processing times, administrative throughput, and public discoverability while meeting strict security and governance standards.

Key Features & Highlights

Bi-directional CMS sync

Secure REST API and webhook-based synchronization between Joomla! and the Laravel portal to keep content and metadata consistent in near-real-time.

Moderation & audit trails

Role-based approval workflows, staged moderation queues, and immutable audit logs for compliance and traceability.

Advanced search & filtering

Indexed metadata search with multi-faceted filters and relevance weighting to surface the most appropriate song entries.

Production-grade deployment

CI/CD pipelines, automated backups, and monitoring on AWS with secure network and DB configurations.

Government-grade security

Enterprise-level security measures and compliance standards for government data protection.

Real-time synchronization

Near-real-time data sync between portal and CMS ensuring consistency across platforms.

Accessible UI design

Responsive, accessible UI built for wide public reach across devices and connection speeds.

Comprehensive audit logging

Detailed audit logging and moderation workflows for transparency and accountability.