1. Introduction
    1. About Agavi
    2. MVC in Agavi
    3. Overview of Agavi
    4. Overview of Application Execution Flow
    5. A Word About Actions
    6. Application filesystem layout
    7. Overview of application configuration
  2. Setting Up The Initial Application
    1. Installing Agavi
    2. Creating an Agavi Project
    3. Finishing The Setup
    4. Finishing The Basic Setup
    5. Installing a New Copy of Your Application
  3. Adding First Code
    1. Creating A New module
    2. Creating A New Action
    3. Tying Things Together — An Introduction To Routing
    4. Fixing The Bloggie Routing
    5. Accessing Request Parameters and Validation Basics
    6. Handling Validation Errors
  4. Putting The M in MVC
    1. Creating A New Model
    2. Adapting The Actions and Views
    3. Custom Validators
  5. Polishing It Up
    1. Layers and Layouts
    2. Applying Our Layout
    3. What Are Slots?
    4. Adding The Post's Title To The URL
    5. Routing Callbacks
    6. Using Callbacks for the Title in URLs
  6. Connecting to a database
    1. The Database Manager
  7. Handling Output Variants
    1. Output Types
    2. Exception Templates
    3. Generating an RSS Feed
  8. Form Processing
    1. Adding a Post
    2. Editing a Post
    3. The Form Population Filter (FPF)
  9. Creating a User Authentication System
  10. Adding To The Master Template

Setting Up The Initial Application

Overview

In this chapter you will create your application skeleton. By the end of this chapter, you will have a complete initial version of the blog application—a newly configured Agavi application skeleton.

The result of your hard labor this chapter is provided with this tutorial as the http://www.agavi.org/guide/stages/stage1.tgz tarball.