PHP Unframework
PHP Unframework
PHP Unframework
This page is meant to be sort of a compass to new users of Flourish to help them figure out where to look for solutions to their problems.
| Task at Hand | Where to Look |
| Handle exceptions and errors gracefully | fCore |
| Ensure content is properly encoded (HTML entities) | fHTML |
| Handle UTF-8 content | fUTF8 |
| Perform simple form validation (contact forms, etc) | fValidation |
| Simple (non-ORM) interaction with a database | fDatabase, fResult, fUnbufferedResult |
| Retrieve the structure of the database I am connected to | fSchema |
| Interact with the database simply by using object-relational mapping (ORM) | fActiveRecord, fRecordSet |
Get and sanitize information from the users request, including GET, POST, PUT and DELETE data |
fRequest |
| Pass transient messages around without polluting URLs | fMessaging |
| Store and retrieve session information | fSession |
| Handle user permissions and access control | fAuthorization |
| Ensure that data is stored securely (passwords, confidential information, etc) | fCryptography |
| Handle dates and times, including timezones | fDate, fTime, fTimestamp |
| Manipulate images | fImage |
| Manipulate and query files and directories | fFile, fDirectory |
| Handle file uploads | fUpload |
| Use templating to reduce code duplication and keep logic and presentation separate | fTemplating |
| Conditionally build English language constructs and convert between syntax notations | fGrammar |
| Handle translation or modification of messages | fText |
| Send emails and validate email addresses | fEmail |
| Encode and decode JSON data | fJSON |
| Deal with precise numbers and calculations | fNumber |
| Represent, manipulate and translate monetary values | fMoney |
| Handle sticky search values and sortable columns for list pages | fCRUD |
| Get and set cookies, including HTTPOnly cookies and default values | fCookie |
| Encode content for XML files | fXML |
The following pages include some more in-depth information about topics, including links to the relevant Flourish classes.