First, let's set up our basic application.

As I previously mentioned, we're building this application using the Jolt micro framework, which is a mini MVC framework that I developed and used for many applications.

I'm going to go over a basic introduction to it so that you can see how it all works and then as we go through each recipe, we'll build on our application until we get a nice, handy system.

You can download the Jolt framework from http://joltframework.com/.

Jolt works in an interesting way; we set it up so that the get and post portions of the site are separated as shown in the following code snippet:

<?php
include 'jolt.php';
$app = new Jolt('my app');
$app->get('/greet', function () use ($app){
    // render a view
    $app->render( 'page', array(
        "pageTitle"=>"Greetings",
        "body"=>"Greetings world!"
    ));
});
$app->post('/greet', function () use ($app){
    // render a view
    $app->render( 'page', array(
        "pageTitle...