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Learning FuelPHP for Effective PHP Development

By : Ross Tweedie
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Learning FuelPHP for Effective PHP Development

By: Ross Tweedie

Overview of this book

<p>PHP frameworks have been around for a number of years. FuelPHP was one of the first frameworks built for PHP 5.3. It makes use of more advanced features of the language to allow you to focus on delivering features and code for your projects. FuelPHP allows you to quickly build prototypes using scaffolding and command-line tools, thus allowing you to concentrate on the fun part of trialling ideas and concepts.</p> <p>This practical guide will show you how to use FuelPHP to quickly create projects more quickly and effectively. You will learn everything you need to know when creating projects with FuelPHP, including how to adapt the project as ideas change and develop.</p> <p>This guide is packed with several tutorials that will help you to build a powerful and engaging application, and in the process you will learn more about FuelPHP. This book explores how to install and build a FuelPHP project in a step- by- step approach.</p> <p>Starting with an exploration of the features of FuelPHP, this book then delves into the creation of a simple application. You will then move on to scaffolding your application using the powerful FuelPHP Oil command-line tool. Next, you will be introduced to packages and modules, and also cover routing, which allows for cleaner URL structures.</p> <p>The book concludes with an introduction to the PHP community.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Getting and installing FuelPHP with curl and Oil


The easiest way of installing FuelPHP is through the use of curl (or wget) and a stripped down version of Oil, the FuelPHP command-line tool.

To install the quick installer, you can run the following command from the shell or a terminal window:

$ curl get.fuelphp.com/oil | sh*

This will ask for your password to install the new files to the /usr/bin directory.

After this is over, you only need to use oil rather than php oil, but both will work for the command-line iterations.

Note

If you have used a FuelPHP version older than 1.6 previously, you will need to reinstall FuelPHP to allow it to use the Composer tool.

To create a new project, simply run the following command:

$ oil create <project>

In this, <project> is the name of your project. This will create a folder of the project name in the current directory. All of your application code and packages will be created in the project folder.

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