Phalcon Tutorial

Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.

This is a very simple tutorial to understand the basis of work with Phalcon.

Check out a explanation article: http://phalconphp.com/documentation/tutorial

This Phalcon PHP application has been configured to run on IIS 7 and on a MSSQL Database.

Get Started

Requirements

To run this application on your machine, you need at least:

• PHP >= 5.3.11
• Apache Web Server with mod rewrite enabled
• Phalcon PHP Framework extension enabled (0.5.x)

Get Started on Windows

IIS

• create a new Website on the IIS Server for the tutorial folder
• Point the new Website to the tutorial/public folder
• Import the following rewrite rules :

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?_url=/$1 [QSA,L]

• After this restart IIS

PHP

• In the php.ini folder enable the extension 'mbstring' extension=php_mbstring.dll
• In the php.ini Set the default charset to utf-8
• Copy the sql_server PDO dll files to the php/ext folder
• In the php.ini file enable the pdo extension : extension=php_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll extension=php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll
• After this restart IIS

Database

create database test; go; use test go;

create table users( id int IDENTITY(1,1) not null primary key, name nvarchar(200), email nvarchar(200) );

Access the $db connection from anywhere

$di = $this->di or $di = Phalcon\DI::getDefault(); $db = $di->get("db");