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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)

Profiling


FuelPHP includes a profiler which is based on PHP Quick Profiler. This allows you to profile and debug your code, all without needing to write extra functions within the application. The profiler can be switched on and off via the application config.php file. To enable the profiler, simply change the 'profiling' variable to true, and set it to false to disable the profiler.

The profiler also includes a database-profiling tool, but, due to the resources required, it is disabled by default. The database profiler will need to be enabled corresponding to the environment used so that the development environment can have it enabled without affecting other environments. It can be enabled in the environment's db.php file using the true value, as shown in the following code:

'profiling' => true,

The profiler has a tabbed interface and consists of the following tabs:

  • Console: This is the default tab giving information about errors, log entries, and memory usage, along with execution timings...