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FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

By : Sebastien Drouyer
Book Image

FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

By: Sebastien Drouyer

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Allowing the user to create and view posts


We will now allow users to create their own posts and display them in their profile page. Posts will also be the main information displayed by our API.

Generating the Post model

We need first to generate the Post model. As usual, we will use oil. Enter the following command line:

php oil generate model post content:varchar[140] user_id:int created_at:int --no-timestamp

The output is as follows:

Creating model: APPPATH/classes/model/post.php
Creating migration: APPPATH/migrations/001_create_posts.php

You can see that we used the --no-timestamp parameter here. It simply prevents the automatic generation of the created_at and updated_at columns. Since we can have a lot of posts and the updated_at column then be useless, we generate the created_at column manually. As a consequence, we need to specify the CreatedAt observer ourselves. Open the Post model located at APPPATH/classes/model/post.php and add the following attribute:

protected static $_observers...