What this book covers

Chapter 1, Building Your First FuelPHP Application, covers the very basics of the FuelPHP framework; how to install it, how to configure it, how it is organized, and its main components. Along the way, we will generate our first FuelPHP application using the oil utility and tweak some files, in order to illustrate how things work.

Chapter 2, Building a To-do List Application, focuses on FuelPHP's ORM and debugging features. We will illustrate these features using a lot of examples, and then implement a small to-do list application. We will also use some JavaScript and jQuery to send AJAX requests.

Chapter 3, Building a Blog Application, will teach you how to generate and tweak an administration interface easily, how to create your own modules and tasks, how to manage paginations easily, and how to use the Auth and Email packages. We will create a blog application implementing all these features.

Chapter 4, Creating and Using Packages, will approach the FuelPHP package system. This is a rather short chapter; we will first try to protect our website from spam bots by installing an existing package, and then create our own original solution by creating a new package.

Chapter 5, Building Your Own RESTful API, covers more advanced subjects such as building a JSON API, using language agnostic template engines, allowing user subscriptions, and implementing unit tests. To illustrate this, we will create a responsive micro blogging application featuring a public API.

Chapter 6, Building a Website Using Novius OS, will quickly introduce you to Novius OS, a FuelPHP-based Content Management System. Using such a system can greatly speed up the implementation of complex projects.