This is a simple forum site I wrote in a couple of hours using Kohana, a lightweight PHP MVC framework. The purpose of writing this application is to prototype ORM usage and speed in a semi-realistic application.
I will also be writing a how to tutorial in the next couple of days based on this application.
To install on a LAMP environment:
- Download the zip file.
- forums.zip
- Or clone from github
- Unzip and drop into your Apache web folder.
- ie. /var/www
- Download the latest bare bones version of Kohana. (I’m using v2.3.4.)
- Copy the systems folder from Kohana into the forums folder.
- Edit forums/application/config/database.php to your server’s database settings.
- Create a database in MySQL matching your database.php settings.
- Edit $config['site_domain'] in forums/application/config/config.php to match the URL of your server.
- ie. if your URL is http://localhost/forums/ then $config['site_domain'] = ‘/forums/’;
- Run modules/forums/forum.sql to populate tables in MySQL.
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Hi !! I’m the new right here but ‘m really curious in web development.
Would absolutely adore to talk about ideas on php development and update myself here.
Would like to be familiar with jake?
Which I have come to learn about is virtually a bridge between Cakephp and Joomla?
How does these really merge and provide an impact to web development in php??
@Amber: I haven’t done hardcore PHP development in a couple of months. I have been developing mostly on Ruby on Rails lately for work. I have a Joomla project that I’m developing for a non-profit at the moment, but I don’t think I would need anything out of the standard Joomla installation. Jake sounds really interesting. I will have to look into that in the future.