INSIC DESIGNS

Last time we had a look at the basics of MiMViC and PHP 5.3. Today we are going to build a cool database shoutbox application supporting all the basic CRUD operations in 10 minutes.

MiMViC is a modular and lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web application framework designed to help build dynamic and robust Web sites. It’s single theory is based on minimal and focusing on only core glue for your complex PHP web sites. Today I will show you how to create a shout-box using the framework.

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it.

Late last year CodeIgniter v1.7.2 was released with a lot of improvements and bug fixes. This version is now compatible with PHP5.3.0, they added is_php() to Common functions to facilitate PHP version comparisons,

A Comma separated values (CSV) file is a computer data file used for implementing the tried and true organizational tool, the Comma Separated List. The CSV file is used for the digital storage of data structured in a table of lists form, where each associated item (member) in a group is in association with others [...]

Now that we are done the CI installation. We are ready to start building our e-commerce application. What we need to do first is design our database structure. You can of course freely design your own structure, but for this tutorial I made it simple.