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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)

Generating an administration system using Oil


We're going to use the Oil tool to quickly build an administration system for entries and categories.

Along with creating migrations and controllers, Oil can also be used to scaffold the functionality for you. This comes in two flavors: one for the frontend, like we've already seen, and the other is the administration system with full controls.

Before continuing, we need to rename the category and entry models. This is because they will be recreated as part of the administration system scaffolding. We rename them so that we have a copy of the previous relations that we set up in those models:

$ mv ~/Sites/journal/fuel/app/classes/model/entry.php ~/Sites/journal/fuel/app/classes/model/entry.bak.php
$ mv ~/Sites/journal/fuel/app/classes/model/category.php ~/Sites/journal/fuel/app/classes/model/category.php

Now, let's run the administration scaffold Oil command:

$ php oil g admin entry name:varchar slug:varchar excerpt:text content:text published_at...