Ross Tweedie - Learning FuelPHP for Effective PHP Development

Ross Tweedie is a developer who specializes in creating applications using PHP and FuelPHP. He is passionate about using FuelPHP to test new ideas and concepts effectively. He is using open source technologies to enable people to collaborate with one another. His background is both in design and development, and he has experience in a wide range of industries.

I would like to thank my family for putting up with the writing sessions. I would also like to thank Stuart Cullum and Davide Casali for their encouragement for this book. I would also like to thank Maarten Jacobs for some of the great tools created and used during this book.

I would also like to thank the team at Packt Publishing including Amey Sawant, Shaon Basu, and Yogesh Dalvi for their help with this book.

Adam Booth is a devoted web developer living in Oklahoma City. He loves all kinds of technology and prefers to stay on the cutting edge of tech news. In his spare time he enjoys watching movies and working on side projects to learn new frameworks and languages. One of these side projects was to create a home automation system that included a beautiful dashboard used to deliver useful information such as weather forecasts for the week, movies playing in theaters, shopping lists, and calendar events happening in the future.

Adam has been using PHP for many years and FuelPHP has been his framework of choice for all new PHP projects he starts. He is excited about the future of web technologies and believes this is where the future of development will really thrive.

I would like to thank my wife, Mallory, for all of the support she has given me over the years. She is creative, resourceful, and one of the best debuggers I know. I'd also like to thank my parents, Don and Susan, who have always been inspirational and encouraging. As small business owners, they have shown me how hard work and perseverance pays off.

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did. FuelPHP is a great framework with a community full of developers willing to help. The team members for FuelPHP are great at what they do and somehow still find the time to answer questions in the forums and other websites.

Rmi Delhaye is a 19-year-old French IT student. His hobbies are Football (U.S.), Muay Tha, Music, and Computer Science. He is passionate about mobile and web development, and his career objective is to create his own international IT business.

He is also passionate about web development and loves working on fantastic projects!

As an IT Student, he worked in one web agency (Calais, France) as an Intern Web Developer and in another Incubation firm (start-up) as a Junior Web Developer (Symfony2) and Frontend Developer (Miami, FL).

He did his schooling from EPSI (Master Degree of IT Engineering). You can contact him at:

Derrick Egersdorfer is a 34-year-old web developer, living in Durban, South Africa. He has over 9 years of experience of using PHP, MySQL, and various JavaScript frameworks. In 2010, Derrick partnered with two of his colleagues to form a web and graphic design studio. Since then, Derrick has been specializing in highly customized website solutions, such as Social Media Networks and Geographic Information Systems.

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Preface

FuelPHP is a great tool, focused on writing web applications in a simple and fast way that requires less PHP code. It allows you to quickly build prototypes using scaffolding and command-line tools, allowing you to concentrate on the fun part of trialing ideas and concepts.

Learning FuelPHP for Effective PHP Development contains several tutorials that will help you build a powerful and engaging application, and in the process, you will learn more about FuelPHP. This book gives the experience of installing and building a FuelPHP project in a step-by-step way.

The book starts by detailing the features of FuelPHP and then delves into the creation of a simple application. We then move on to scaffolding our application using the powerful FuelPHP Oil command-line tool. We conclude the book with an introduction to the community.