Ninjapenguin

So, I have been following the progress of the Kohana php framework for a little while now, after completing a number of projects using CodeIgniter I started looking for a more php5 competent framework and came across the community branch of CodeIgniter called Kohana.

I’ve been slowly getting to grips with the framework for a couple of weeks now and plan to use it in the next project I’m about to take on. It seems like a fantastic framework with some really good developers who have done some awesome stuff with the core but like any early project currently suffers (IMO) from a lack of basic documentation . .so I have decided to help (hopefully) with a short screencast on how to set up a small application (a blog) just to get people using the framework.

The first screencast focuses on setting it for for development, it covers the following topics:

• Downloading the source code from svn
• Setting up a local site in apache (running on localhost)
• Placing the index.php into a webroot
• Removing the index.php from the url

It’s the first screencast I have ever attempted so it is most likely very rough around the edges but I hope it can be of some to someone!

The only bit of accompanying code you will need is the rewrite rule I used within the virtual host which you can copy and paste from below;

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteCond $1 ^(application|system)

# Rewrite to index.php/access_denied/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/access_denied/$1 [PT,L]

# Do not enable rewriting for files that exist
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !/index.+

# Rewrite to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [PT,L]

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me about them!

[Download the QT movie here]
[Download the compressed movie here]

/Matt

**EDIT** - The second part in this series has now been posted up and is available here 

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