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That’s right! The latest code from Makiavelo just got a new feature: migrations.

In my never ending journey of re-inventing the wheel, a.k.a building my own web framework for PHP, I’ve recently updated the code with a new feature, migrations.
Whether you implement this feature like Rails does or anyother way, it is important to have a way to control the changes to the database in a way that allows to easily go back and forth between them. It is always a plus to have record of each change done to the database, I think it helps maintainability.
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On my previous post I talked about the basic steps needed to start up our mini-blog project on Makiavelo.

Now I’ll talk about the few lines of code needed to get the controllers ready and the configuration needed to setup the virtual host on Apache.

Let’s get down to business, shall we?

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Makiavelo is a new PHP Web Framework that’s in the works, you can find out more about it here.
I think that the best way to learn a about a new framework, is to create something that actually works with it, so I’ll go over a simple “blogging” application that will cover the basics:

• Using the command line to create entities
• Setting up basic user authentication
• Basic html formatting
• Apache configuration required to setup our virtual host.

So, lets go over the example….(I’ll assume you’ve been to the GitHub page and read the docs). In part I, I’ll cover:

1. Setting up database
2. Setting up entities
3. Messing with routes
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