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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)

Composer


There are currently a lot of ways to manage code and install third-party functionality. The Ruby world has the Gem packaging system. As mentioned in Chapter 1 , What is FuelPHP?, the framework is adopting the PHP coding and interoperability standards. Part of this is the ability to use code from other frameworks without rewriting them to a FuelPHP package.

During the life span of a project, the packages may change with new functionality and security fixes. Like Bundler for Ruby on Rails, PHP has a dependency manager called Composer.

Composer allows you to declare which versions of libraries to install in your project, and it will install them for you. This is great when developing and testing, as you know exactly what code is installed. It also allows you to source control any changes to those libraries.

Although it is still early days for FuelPHP packages and Composer, there are a few packages available at the following link:

https://packagist.org/search/?q=fuel-

To add more dependencies...