Logikit::framework

Five Minutes Blog Tutorial

Here's how you can create a blog using Logikit::Framework in five minutes.

Preparing the Database Tables

Run the SQL statements below to create the entries table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `entries` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `title` char(100) NOT NULL,
  `entry` longtext NOT NULL,
  `date` date NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

Installation Instructions

• Unzip the package.
• Upload the LF folders and files to your server.

Optionally , if you want to use a database:

• Open the application/config/database.ini file with a text editor and change the database settings in the "development" area.

  [development]
  driver = mysql
  host = localhost
  ;port = 3306
  schema = framework
  username = root
  password = mypass
  

  where "schema" will be your database name.
• Open the application/config/config.php file with a text editor and change the line

  define("DB_ENVIRONMENT" , 'none');

  to

  define("DB_ENVIRONMENT" , 'development');

...and you are done!

Setting the Environment

We will start with a new LF installation. Once you'll have an idea on how it works, you may invoke the generator anytime you need it.

• Open a command line and switch to your LF installation folder.
  Assuming your LF installation folder is /var/www/framework/:
  
  
  dev@logikit:~$ cd /var/www/framework
• Make sure to have write permissions recursively for application folder:
  
  
  dev@logikit:/var/www/framework$ chmod -R 777 application

Generating the Code

• Switch to system folder:
  
  
  dev@logikit:/var/www/framework$ cd system
• Run the generator:
  
  
  dev@logikit:/var/www/framework/system$ ./generate.php --generation-dir ../application

If your webroot is /var/www on your localhost, you can see your application running
Here's how it will look like: