FuelPHP Application Development Blueprints

Supercharge your projects by designing and implementing web applications with FuelPHP

About This Book

• Construct top-notch web applications with one of the best frameworks based on PHP
• Implement new functionalities using FuelPHP's convenient utilities and features such as the ORM, modules, packages, and the oil utility
• Step-by-step tutorial that provides real-world examples and insight into FuelPHP

Who This Book Is For

This book is for intermediary to seasoned web developers who want to learn how to use the FuelPHP framework and build complex projects using it. You should be familiar with PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but no prior knowledge about MVC frameworks is required.

What You Will Learn

• Use FuelPHP's ORM to your advantage to execute complex operations in the database using simple and object-oriented code
• Implement clean and maintainable HMVC web applications using controllers, views, models, and presenters
• Create modules and packages in order to implement reusable code bundles
• Implement tasks to execute repetitive actions or cron jobs
• Use the oil console to quickly test code and ideas
• Create a powerful API-driven application in order to allow users and external services to use your data
• Debug and profile your applications for further improvements
• Be introduced to the Novius OS Content Management System based on FuelPHP

In Detail

FuelPHP is an open source framework that uses some of the most advanced features of PHP to allow you to build projects as easily and quickly as possible. It is gaining popularity with developers as you can build powerful, complex, and yet efficient applications with very little code.

This book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create, improve, and publish functional and maintainable FuelPHP applications. We will go through a variety of topics such as MVC, ORM, scaffolding, packages, modules, and much more by building applications of increasing complexity. At the beginning of each chapter, we will specify the application we want to build, and then we will progressively implement it by learning new FuelPHP's features along the way. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with FuelPHP and will be able to implement new projects all by yourself.