Section: A B C D

Extending the Sample Application

Section D shows you how to extend the website developed in Section C.

Each chapter introduces new techniques or adds features you will have seen on popular sites and social networks.

All of the code shown in the video is available in the code download.

Transcription

In Section D you extend the sample application, which you started building in the previous section. It's called Creative Folk – a site where creatives upload examples of their work.

You're going to add features from popular websites and social networks. This will allow visitors to:

Register and log in
Upload examples of their own work
Update their profile and edit the work they've already uploaded
Send emails containing password reset links and contact form messages
And, they’ll be able to like and comment on other people's posts

Along the way, you’re going to learn techniques such as:

Refactoring
Dependency injection
Using Composer to manage dependencies
And, templating languages