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Learning Phalcon PHP

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Learning Phalcon PHP

Overview of this book

Phalcon is a full-stack PHP framework implemented as a C extension. Building applications with Phalcon will offer you lower resource consumption and high performance whether your application runs on a Linux machine or a Windows one. Phalcon is loosely coupled, allowing you to use its objects as glue components based on the needs of your application. Phalcon PHP's mission is to give you an advanced tool to develop faster websites and applications. This book covers the most common and useful parts of PhalconPHP, which will guide you to make the right decisions while developing a Phalcon-driven application. You will begin the journey by installing and setting up Phalcon for your environment followed by the development of each module. You will be introduced to Phalcon's ORM and ODM. Furthermore, you will also be able to create the first models and database architecture for your project. You will then cover command-line applications, API module, volt syntax, and hierarchical views. Installing and working with Node and Bower for assets management will also be covered. Finally, you will gain insights into creating the backoffice and frontend module along with best practices and resources for development with Phalcon PHP. By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently develop any kind of application using the Phalcon PHP framework in a short time.

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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Getting Started with Phalcon
1. Getting Started with Phalcon
Installing the required software
Installing Phalcon
The Apache and Nginx configuration files
Understanding the framework's internals
Summary
2
2. Setting Up the MVC Structure and the Environment for Our Project
2. Setting Up the MVC Structure and the Environment for Our Project
What is MVC?
The MVC structure
Creating the structure for our project
Creating the configuration file and the Bootstrap
Preparing the initial DI interface and the router
Using the router component in a module
Create the base layout
Summary
3
3. Learning Phalcon's ORM and ODM
3. Learning Phalcon's ORM and ODM
The main differences between SQL and NoSQL databases
Connecting to the database
ORM/ODM operations (create, update, delete, transactions, and validations)
CRUD operations using ORM
Using PHQL
Using raw SQL
Database transactions
ODM/MongoDB
ORM – drawbacks and caching
Summary
4
4. Database Architecture, Models, and CLI Applications
4. Database Architecture, Models, and CLI Applications
The database architecture
Models
Summary
5
5. The API Module
5. The API Module
Using APIs – recommended practices
Enabling SSL on our local machine
Creating the module structure
Writing a fully functional REST module with Phalcon PHP
Securing an API
Documenting the API
Summary
6
6. Assets, Authentication, and ACL
6. Assets, Authentication, and ACL
Assets management
Developing an authentication system
Securing the application using the ACL component
Summary
7
7. The Backoffice Module (Part 1)
7. The Backoffice Module (Part 1)
Editing the main layout
Cleaning the Core module
Hashtag CRUD
Category CRUD
Summary
8
8. The Backoffice Module (Part 2)
8. The Backoffice Module (Part 2)
User CRUD
User templates
Article CRUD
Summary
9
9. The Frontend Module
9. The Frontend Module
The Frontend layout and basic functionality
Modifying BaseController.php
Implementing ElasticSearch
Implementing MongoDB
Summary
10
10. Going Further
10. Going Further
Uploading files with Phalcon
Using the Annotation router
Summary
11
Index
Index

Article CRUD

We partially wrote some code for this part. It is probably working for you, but you will be changing mostly everything in it. The API controller has already been developed, so we can move directly on to ArticleManager to refactor it.

The Controller (API)

The code for this controller is similar to that of the rest of the controllers. Let's see what it looks like. Open the file located at modules/Api/Controllers/ArticlesController.php, clear its content, and write the following code:

<?php
namespace App\Api\Controllers;

class ArticlesController extends BaseController{
  public function updateAction($id) {
    try {
      $manager = $this->getDI()->get('core_article_manager');

      if ($this->request->getHeader('CONTENT_TYPE') == '       application/json') {
        $data = $this->request->getJsonRawBody(true);
      } else {
        $data = $this->request->getPut();
      }

      if (count($data) == 0) {
        throw new \Exception('Please provide...
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