FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

Sebastien Drouyer

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783985401
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Webprogrammierung

FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

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Table of Contents

FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Building Your First FuelPHP Application

About FuelPHP

Development process of a FuelPHP application

Installing the environment

Windows

Mac

Ubuntu

Recommended modules and extensions

Getting the FuelPHP framework

Installing FuelPHP 1.7.2

Downloading the appropriate ZIP file

Using Composer

Updating FuelPHP

Installation directory and apache configuration

The simplest way

By setting up a virtual host

FuelPHP basics

The FuelPHP file system hierarchy

The app directory

The packages

Class name, paths, and coding standard

MVC, HMVC, and how it works on FuelPHP

What is MVC?

How it works on FuelPHP

Actions and controllers

Views

Parameters

Routes

Presenters

What is HMVC?

The oil utility and the oil console

Building your first application

Database configuration

Scaffolding

Migrating

Using your application

Refining the application

Refining the monkey listing

Refining the monkey detailed view

Allowing an empty description

Checking whether the height is a float

Using a checkbox instead of an input for the still_here attribute

Setting custom routes

Removing useless routes and files

A few notes about deploying your application

Summary

2. Building a To-do List Application

Specifications

Conception

FuelPHP installation and configuration

Scaffolding

Routes configuration

The profiler

Models, relations, and the ORM

Differences between CRUD and ORM

The FuelPHP ORM

DB and ORM basics

Executing queries without the ORM

Creating new objects

Finding specific objects

Updating an object

Deleting an object

Loading several objects

Using method chaining

More complex requests

ORM relations

Defining relations inside the models

Testing the relations

Getting objects' relations

Updating objects' relations

Observers and events

Implementation of the to-do list

Allowing the user to see and change tasks' status

Allowing the user to add tasks

Allowing the user to change tasks' order

Axis of improvements

Summary

3. Building a Blog Application

Specifications

Conception

Preliminary steps

Scaffolding the posts

Migrating part 1

The administration panel

The Auth package

Creating the Blog module

Moving files to the Blog module

Improving the navigation bar

Scaffolding the rest of our project

Scaffolding categories

Generating files

Moving categories to the blog module

Migrating

Scaffolding comments

Scaffolding posts (front)

Refining the administration panel

Refining the posts administration panel

Improving the post creation and edition forms

Removing and automatically filling the slug

Changing the small description input to a textarea

Editing the post content using a WYSIWYG editor

Replacing the category input by a select box

Replacing the user_id field by author

Removing the View link

The posts' list

Removing the Slug, Small description and Content columns

Displaying the category and author names

Removing the view link

Refining the categories administration panel

Removing the View link

Adding the number of post's column

Solution 1: using count

Solution 2: using related

Solution 3: using DB::query

Refining the comments administration panel

Improving the comments listing

Removing the view and adding a new comment link

Removing the Email and Content columns

Replacing the Post id column by Post

Improving the comment edition form

Changing the Status input to a select box

Replacing Post id by Post

Removing the View link

Protecting your website against CSRF attacks

Protecting links

Protecting forms

Refining the front-end

Refining the posts' listing

Deleting useless features

Changing how the posts' listing is displayed

Adding pagination

Using posts' slug

Listing posts by categories

Adding indexes

Refining the posts' visualization webpage

Changing the post layout

Adding the comment form

Displaying comments

Notifying the author when a new comment is posted

Clearing rejected comments

Additional improvements

Summary

4. Creating and Using Packages

What are CAPTCHAs?

Preliminary steps

Generating the sample application

The reCAPTCHA solution

Installing the recaptcha package

Configuring the recaptcha package

Integrating the recaptcha package

Creating your own package

Conception

Generating the package

Generating the Captcha_Answer model

Migrating the package

Integrating the package into our application

Implementing the get_html method

Implementing the CAPTCHA verification method

Cleaning old captchas

Possible improvements

Summary

5. Building Your Own Restful API

Specifications

Conception

FuelPHP installation and configuration

The Parser package and template engines

A major benefit of language-agnostic template engines

Subscription and authentication features

Implementing the subscription and authentication forms

Handling the signup form

Handling the signin form

Allowing the user to sign out

Allowing the user to create and view posts

Generating the Post model

Allowing the user to create new posts

Implementing the user interface

Implementing the post creation action

Implementing the profile page

Configuring the routes

Creating the user model

Implementing the show action

Implementing views

Implementing the API

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