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Zend Framework 2 Application Development

By : Christopher Valles
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Zend Framework 2 Application Development

By: Christopher Valles

Overview of this book

<p>Zend Framework 2 has a flexible architecture that lets us build modern web applications and web services easily. It also provides an easy-to-use, high quality component library that is designed to be used the way you want. It's easy to get started and produce a powerful and professional looking website with Zend Framework 2 Application Development. Exploring real life applications, we will explore the Zend Framework 2 components, as well as throwing some light on best practices and design concerns faced when building complex MVC applications.Zend Framework 2 Application Development is a hands-on guide to building your application. We will explore the components of this new version of the framework and discover how to use each component, the options available, and how to get the most from each component. Whilst learning everything you need to know, we’ll even create our own social network. We will also learn to engineer an application using an API-centric approach, broadly used today to build applications that work seamlessly on desktops, mobiles and tablets. We will learn how to filter and validate data, interact with databases to retrieve and store data, handle and manipulate file uploads, interact with other websites, deal with spam, and also protect your APIs using OAuth authentication whilst allowing people from all over the world to interact with your application. Zend Framework 2 Application Development is your guide to everything you need to know to build applications of any size for big and small companies alike, whilst using the right components for the job.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Zend Framework 2 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
The First Request/Response – Building the User Wall
5
Handling Text Content – Posting Text
6
Working with Images – Publishing Pictures
8
Dealing with Spam – Akismet to the Rescue
Index

API development


All the work on this chapter will be done on the API side of the project and no changes are required on the client. In this way, we can manage exactly what we are sending, the recipient, and so on.

Requirements

We have a few requirements for this section of the API, which are as follows:

  • We need to centralize all the e-mail logic on one class

  • The e-mails must support HTML

  • The HTML must not be mixed with the PHP code and they have to be placed on a template

  • The e-mails must use a common layout to simplify the changes on the skeleton of the e-mail.

The module structure

As the code will be used in different types of controllers, we are going to add the code to the Common module. The following screenshot shows how the folder structure will look, along with the new files:

Adding the mailer.php file

This is the class where we are going to centralize all the code related to the e-mail sending functionality and this is also the class that we have to change every time we want to add a new e...