PHP 8 for Absolute Beginners: Basic Website and Web Application Development

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8. Basic Blog: Entries and Comments

Jason Lengstorf¹  , Thomas Blom Hansen² and Steve Prettyman³

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No 392, Portland, OR, USA

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Kirke Saaby, Denmark

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Palm Bay, FL, USA

 

Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Create a view containing an interactive HTML form

• Create a controller to handle input from the form

• Create a model to save and retrieve any entry using a database table

• Use a foreign key to associate rows and tables comments in a database

• Use inheritance to avoid redundant code

• Create a search algorithm to find data in a database table

In this chapter, ...