Development

A framework is goddamn useless. You know that right? Well, the framework provides you facilities. It is you who should actually use the features provided by the framework to create your application; and in that process sir, you are going to create more files. Of those files, there would be some files whose whole purpose is to be included elsewhere and such files are usually called as 'includes'. As such, the QCubed framework itself is contained in the includes directory of the installation.

Application is made of code. To make an application you need to write code. If it is a web application, you need to create forms which could allow you to enter data into the database. No matter you are using PhpMyAdmin or PhpPgAdmin or any other database administration system, you cannot use it for long for the simple reason that they cannot be made a part of your very own application. If you do, you are risking the security and integrity of your database.

Applications grow and they grow in no time. Every application begins small and then starts adding in new functionalities. Let us say that you are running a small website which deals with classified ads. The service is free in the beginning. Slowly your website catches up and you want to start a paid service. Now is the problem - you have to manage financial transactions as well as the regular data your site hosts. However, now there is a risk - if for any reason, your main site database crashes or is hacked into, you are risking your financial transactions data as well!

In the last part we examined the way to extract out the Query String from the URL. However, as is known well, the query string in itself is useless. It is the keys and their values that matter! This post is just about that - how to extract the names of the keys and their values from the query string received on the URL (via GET request). We will not cover how to read the query string as we have done that already in the last program. Let us bring in a few new goodies into that program and introduce a way to extract and print the values in the URL.

QCubed PHP Framework features a lot of things really useful for helping you build your web application real fast. Here are some of those features: