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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

Frontend


Let's review the work we need to do at the client side of the app. We need to create a new layout in order to remove the header menu. After that, we have to create the signup form and its view. Then, we should modify the controller to use the new layout and process the signup form. We also need to modify the controller view to show the signup form and finally adapt ApiClient to be able to send the data to the API.

The following screenshot shows the structure of the module:

The signup.phtml file

Let's start with the layout. The file is not shown in the screenshot, but it should be placed in the Common module next to the layout.phtml file. The contents of the file are the same as that of the layout.phtml file. The only difference is that we removed the following lines of code:

<?php $this->navigation('navigation')->findBy('route', 'wall')
    ->setParams(array('username' => $this->username)); ?>
<?php $this->navigation('navigation')->findBy('route', 'feeds...