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Kohana 3.x Log Viewer module

by admin on November 30, 2011

Kohana Logs are a good way of debugging and monitoring application flow. It has various types of log writers for storing and showing logs. But the most commonly used one is the File Writer. One painful thing with this file (…)

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The first Kohana book : Kohana 3.0 Beginner’s Guide

by admin on November 23, 2011

Packt has published the first book on Kohana “Kohana 3.0 Beginner’s Guide”.Here is my view on this book.
The book discussed all major aspects of a generic MVC web application. With “how to do”, it have good explanation of “how it works” about most of the things. As a target of step by step learning, it takes a sample web application that will allow users to create simple profiles, post messages for their friends, and manage their public page. Throughout the book, the reader will build this application by learning the Kohana way of MVC components, Routing, Helpers, Session handling, Modules, Database interaction, Templating etc. Also have details discussion of some important Modules and Helpers like HTML, URL, ORM, Auth, Validation etc.

Setting up Database testing with Kohana UnitTest module

by admin on October 11, 2010

Kohana Unittest module has made testing in Kohana v3 easy and fun. Lysender wrote a cool, straight forward post about how to set it up and running. I’ll just talk here about how I have set up database testing with (…)

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