1. Project Phase II Instructions &Sample Code
Download XAMPP
XAMPP includes: Apache, PHP, MySQL, and other goodies. No need to download and install them separately, XAMPP does it all.
Download:
FAQs (Includes instructions on how to install it and set it up):
Windows FAQs:
OSX FAQs:
Linux FAQs:

2. Project Phase II Instructions
Download Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio is a web development IDE rooted on Eclipse. You can use your preferred IDE for the project, it does not need to be Aptana.
Download:
You can download Aptana Studio 2, 3 or either as an Eclipse plugin. For the instructions on this guide, we will use the standalone (not the Eclipse plugin) version of Aptana Studio 3.

3. Project Phase II Instructions
Sample API (Slim Framework)
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
Slim Framework documentation:
See :
Sample GUI Web-App (for CRUD operations)
A sample CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) web-app that interfaces with the MySQL database to use.
See :

4. Setting up a Sample DB
XAMPP bundles in PhpMyAdmin (

5. Set PhpMyAdmin web-app
Go to:
If you don’t use Port 80 – Use where {yourport} is the custom port.

6. Setting up the Sample API
Add sample_api, to you XAMPP’s htdocs folder
With sample_api in place:
Open Aptana Studio (or your IDE)
Click File -> Import
Select Existing Folder as New Project
Select a folder. Navigate to your C:/xampp/htdocs/sample_api folder
Give the project a name
Select PHP and Web - Primary as the project types
Click on Finish

7. Sample_gui – customers.php

8. Sample_gui – customers.php

9. Sample_api – index.php

10. Sample_api – index.php

11. Sample_api – index.php

12. New sample_gui_v02.zip
sample_gui.zip. now contacts the sample_api via (/customers; /employees) and grabs the result, decodes JSON into a PHP variable, and then loops
Important code there is this:
$jsonResponseAllEmployees = http_get(" array("timeout"=>1), $info); // Need PCL for this $array = json_decode($jsonResponseAllEmployees);
function http_get creates a GET request to the URL specified in the first parameter and grabs whatever the response is and stores it into the $jsonResponseAllEmployees
$info variable contains info on the request itself (not the response) in case debugging is necessary

13. Sample_gui_v02 – customers.php

14. Sample_gui_v02 – employees.php

15. Sample_gui_v02 – employees.php

16. PHP and MySQL Links

17. PHP Frameworks PHP html Frameworks PHP Mobile Frameworks
PHP Mobile Frameworks