Building Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloud: A Simple Guide to Programming and Administering Cloud-Based Applications

© Jonathan Bartlett 2019

J. BartlettBuilding Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_4

4. Creating a Simple Web App

Jonathan Bartlett¹ 

(1)

Tulsa, OK, USA

 

In this chapter, we are going to be creating an extremely simple web application to use for demonstration purposes in subsequent chapters. The goal here is to get a full, end-to-end application up and running.

The application we are going to develop will simply be a guestbook, so that anyone can come and post a message into the guestbook.

4.1 Setting Up the Database Service

Any good web application has a database. My database of choice has always been PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org). There is a myth that PostgreSQL is slow. There was some truth to that—in ...