deeheber / book-inventory

This is an application that tracks and stores information about books using PHP and a SQL database.

Book inventory app

Note this repo is archived and won't be receiving updates, so code might be out of date with current conventions. Keeping this around as a reminder of how far I've come.

Summary

This is a minimal PHP application that tracks and stores information about books in a SQLite database.

Features

• Read and display all books in the database
• Create a new book
• Delete a book
• Update a book

Directions to run locally

1. clone the repo
2. install MAMP
3. move project directory to /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/
4. open MAMP from /Applications/MAMP/MAMP.app
5. click on start servers
6. navigate to localhost:8888 in a web browser

Note: You will also need to set up your local SQLite database. See official docs here. Unless you change my code, you'll need to name the database test and create a books table in that db.

Note: Users on Windows or Linux can ignore the above MAMP directions and download XAMPP instead. Not sure of the specific setup, but they probably have good docs?

Want to use a MySQL db instead?

• Take a look at the code on this branch.
• A local MySQL db instance will run through MAMP if you're on a Mac.