Trongate Framework Documentation

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Welcome
- Table of Contents
- Welcome To The Revolution
- Trongate's Free Forever Promise
- About These Docs
Getting Started
- A Word About MariaDB And MySQL
- Installing PHP and MySQL
- Let's Get Trongate!
Basics Concepts
- A Few Words About Coding Style
- The Structure of a Trongate Web App
- Introducing Modular HAVC
- The Problem With MVC
- Isn't this the same as HMVC?
- What's Inside A Module?
Understanding Routing
- What Is Routing?
- 404 Error Pages
- How Basic URL Routing Works
- Reading Values From The URL
- Preventing Methods From Being Invoked Via The URL
- Advanced Custom Routing
Controllers
- What Is A Controller?
- The Structure Of A Controller
- Defining A Default Controller
Views
- Understanding View Files
- An Example Of A View File Being Used
- Passing Data Into View Files
- Returning Views Output As A Variable
- Best Practices
The File Asset Manager
- Why We Need A File Asset Manager
- Basic Example - Part 1
- Basic Example - Part 2
- The Module Assets Trigger
- Additional Information
Modules Calling Modules
- Calling Another Module From A Controller
- Calling Another Module From A View
Super Modules & Sub Modules
- Complete Video Tutorial
- What Are Super Modules And Sub Modules?
- Accessing Sub Modules Via The URL
- Loading View Files From Within Sub Modules
- Accessing Sub Modules From Other Modules
Templates
- What Are Templates?
- How To Create Your Own Website Template
- Loading Templates
- Passing Information Into Templates
- Passing View Files Into Templates
- Template Partials
- About The Admin Template
Trongate CSS
- Introducing Trongate CSS
- Features and Benefits
- Trongate CSS Examples
- JavaScript Components
- Trongate CSS Video Tutorial
- Working With YouTube Videos
Helpers Explained
- Helpers Introduction
- The URL Helper
- The Form Helper
- The Form Validation Helper
- The Flashdata Helper
- The File Validation Helper
- The Pagination Helper
- Other Helpful Features
Form Handling
- Trongate's Approach To Form Handling
- Getting Started With Form Building
- Creating A Books Database Table
- Manually Building A Form
- Improving Our Form
- Form Validation (The Pipe Method)
- Form Validation (The Array Method)
- Displaying Form Validation Errors
- A Closer Look At The Post Method
- Repopulating Forms
- Creating Records
- Reading Records
- Table Joins
- Updating Records
- Deleting Records
- Custom Validation Callbacks
- CSRF Protection
Database Interaction
- How Trongate Works With Databases
- Getting Started
- How To Use Debug Mode
- The 'Get' Method
- The 'Get Where' Method
- The 'Get Where Custom' Method
- The 'Get One Where' Method
- The 'Get Many Where' Method
- The 'Count' Method
- The 'Count Where' Method
- The 'Count Rows' Method
- The 'Get Max' Method
- The 'Insert' Method
- The 'Update' Method
- The 'Delete' Method
- The 'Query' Method
- The 'Query Bind' Method
- The 'Insert Batch' Method
- Graphical Query Builder Video Tutorial
Uploading Files
- A General Overview Of File Uploading
- Building An Uploader Form
- Understanding The Upload Process
- Uploading Pictures
Working With Images
- How To Build Picture Uploaders - Video Demo
- Understanding Single Picture Uploaders
- The Submit Upload Method
- A Closer Look At Picture Settings
- The Drag 'n' Drop Multi File Uploader
- Controlling How Multi-File Uploaders Behave
The Module Import Wizard
- What Problem Does This Solve?
- How To Use The Module Import Wizard
Authorization and Authentication
- Section Introduction
- What We Are Trying To Achieve
- How Trongate's Token System Works
- The Three Security Tables
- Generating Tokens (JavaScript Friendly Version)
- Generating Tokens (PHP Friendly Version)
- Fetching User Data From Tokens (JavaScript friendly version)
- Fetching User Data From Tokens (PHP Friendly Version)
- More Useful Features
- Destroying Tokens (JavaScript Friendly Version)
- Destroying Tokens (PHP Friendly Version)
- Understanding HTTP Response Status Codes
The API Explorer
- An Introduction To The Trongate API Explorer
- API Terminology Explained
- Trongate's Built-In Endpoints
- Getting Started With The API Explorer
- Building Your Api Settings File
- Testing Your API Endpoints
- Optional Additional Parameters
- Before Hooks And After Hooks - General Overview
- Before Hooks - Deep Dive
- After Hooks - Deep Dive
- Querying Endpoints
- Understanding API Authorization
- How To Attach Tokens To Requests
- Wide Open Authorization
- Role Based Authorization
- ID Based Authorization
- User ID Segment Authorization
- User Code Segment Authorization
- User Owned Segment Authorization
- Custom API Endpoints
Before You Launch
- Hiding Your Admin Login URL
- Pre Launch Checklist
- Web Hosting Advice

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Trongate CSS Examples

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