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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)

Unit testing


No modern framework would be complete without the ability to test the application code and functionality. FuelPHP has been built with this in mind and, thus, includes tests and test cases based on the PHPUnit testing framework.

So what is unit testing?

Unit tests are automated tests written to check whether or not the units of functionality (methods and functions) are working as expected. The tests typically test whether or not, for a given input, the output is correct, treating the functions as a black box to ensure that the internal logic works.

Since unit testing is automated, it's easy to ensure that the recent code changes don't break other functionality. It also allows for the use of a continuous integration server such as Jenkins (http://jenkins-ci.org). A continuous integration server will automatically deploy your code for you once the code passes the unit testing, allowing you to concentrate on the actual code.

PHPUnit

There are several unit testing tools available in PHP...