Virtual hosts and multiple Solar projects

In the first part of the series, Big Bang with Solar, I showed you how to download and install Solar for a single project. What I didn’t show you is a way to set up Solar for multiple virtual hosts under Apache, which is what I will be showing you today in our example.

For our example we will use the fictional web sites polygon-ex.com and square-ex.com. If these sites actually exist I apologize in advance for using the names without permission…please forgive me

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Big Bang with Solar – Part 1

So you have read the manual and browsed the Solar wiki. Now you want to get your hands dirty with setting up your own project. Good news, you’ve found the right place. In this series, I plan to show you, step-by-step, how to set up your very own project using Solar.

To make sure we stay on track, here is the scope for part 1 of the series.

• Download and Install Solar
• Determine our project guidelines
• Configure Apache using Virtual Hosts
• Set up our bootstrap and configuration file
• Create a “Hello World” example application

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SolarPHP authentication using MySQL

This post is an extension to SolarPHP’s current manual page on User Authentication and is intended for folks that already have a project setup using the SolarPHP framework. What I hope to accomplish here is to show you how to setup user authentication using MySQL and SolarPHP, something the Solar manual currently does not show you how to do. What I do not cover here is setting up the login box for your project. The login box itself comes packaged with the Solar framework and will appear on your project page if you do not change the default layout.

Resources related to this tutorial can be found on the last page.

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