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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 on the client side of the app. We need to create a new layout in order to remove the header menu, create the signup form and its view, modify the controller to use the new layout and process the sign-up form, modify the controller view to show the sign-up form, and finally adapt ApiClient to be able to send the data to the API side.

The following is the structure of the module:

The login form

In the login form, we will ask the user for the username and the password. So, the form will be very simple. Also, when we work with forms, we need to also create the form view and the filter configuration. I'm pretty sure that you are totally capable of creating these files by yourself, so give it a try! Remember that you can always check the source code provided in the book.

Changes in the ApiClient.php file

We need to add a new method named authenticate() in this object in order to be able to authenticate the user. As you can imagine, the method is really simple...