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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


Ok, now we have the API ready to start accepting images. We will need to add a new form on the client to accept the files from the user, validate the image, and upload it to the API.

The following screenshot shows how the folder structure has changed:

Creating the Image.php file

When we get the info from the API, we store it using entities and, of course, we need a new one for the images. In this case, we will do it a bit differently. We saw that we can store the input filter configuration in the entity; however, for now we will store it directly on the form instead of the entity. This class is more or less the same as the Status entity; we only have a couple of differences as follows:

public $domain = 'http://zf2-api/images/';

This property will be used in a method that generates the URL of the image. Notice that we are passing the image to the API and storing it on that side of the application, which means that the image should be accessible via a URL to be able to see it. That's why...