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Learning Phalcon PHP

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Learning Phalcon PHP

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Learning Phalcon PHP
Aug, 2015 | 328 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Phalcon PHP
Learning Phalcon PHP
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Phalcon
Getting Started with Phalcon
Installing the required software
Installing Phalcon
The Apache and Nginx configuration files
Understanding the framework's internals
Summary
2
Setting Up the MVC Structure and the Environment for Our Project
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
Learning Phalcon's ORM and ODM
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
Database Architecture, Models, and CLI Applications
Database Architecture, Models, and CLI Applications
The database architecture
Models
Summary
5
The API Module
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
Assets, Authentication, and ACL
Assets, Authentication, and ACL
Assets management
Developing an authentication system
Securing the application using the ACL component
Summary
7
The Backoffice Module (Part 1)
The Backoffice Module (Part 1)
Editing the main layout
Cleaning the Core module
Hashtag CRUD
Category CRUD
Summary
8
The Backoffice Module (Part 2)
The Backoffice Module (Part 2)
User CRUD
User templates
Article CRUD
Summary
9
The Frontend Module
The Frontend Module
The Frontend layout and basic functionality
Modifying BaseController.php
Implementing ElasticSearch
Implementing MongoDB
Summary
10
Going Further
Going Further
Uploading files with Phalcon
Using the Annotation router
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Altaf Hussain is an electrical engineer on paper and a software engineer at heart. He is an e-commerce and mobile applications enthusiast. He acquired his BE degree in electrical engineering (with specialization in computers and communication) from Pakistan. He then worked for numerous organizations as a backend developer and moved to Saudi Arabia to work as a software engineer.

Currently, Altaf is working in the fashion industry at Shy7lo.com. He manages dedicated servers, different VPSes, Staging Servers, and GitLab instances for fast deployment. As a senior team member, he is responsible for creating cross-platform mobile applications and APIs. He also works on different caching systems, such as Varnish and Full Page Cache. In his free time, Altaf writes posts for http://www.programmingtunes.com.

Stephan A. Miller is a software engineer from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is currently working for Kinetic Supply Company. He has worked with open source software technologies for over a decade. Some of the languages that he uses are PHP, JavaScript, and Python. He also uses various frameworks in these languages, including Phalcon, Zend, Laravel, jQuery, AngularJS, and Flask. Stephan has written Piwik Web Analytics Essentials and Getting Started with Phalcon for Packt Publishing.

Dilanka Somarathne has worked with the LAMP stack for 2 years. He always tries to learn something new. He performs experiments in PHP to find out the best PHP framework for programming. He also conducted a tech talk session in benchmarking several PHP frameworks at his previous organization, thinkCube Systems, for which he received good feedback from the audience and appreciation from other technical leads and architects. Dilanka has experience of working on Laravel, Zend Framework 2, CodeIgniter, and Phalcon. He has worked on Node.js and Angular projects too.

Phalcon is a new and very fast PHP framework. He started following and learning Phalcon after he attended a Phalcon meetup. As his first step, he created a small application with Phalcon. Because of his amazing experience with the application, he was able to get a clear idea about it.

I feel fortunate to get a chance to join the reviewing panel of Packt Publishing. Leena Purkait gave me this awesome chance. I would like to take this opportunity to thank her. Then, Bijal Patel joined the team. From the first day, she has been very helpful and has always replied to my e-mails patiently. Thank you very much, Bijal.

Working as a Phalcon reviewer for Packt Publishing was a really good experience for me. Thank you very much guys for giving me this huge opportunity.

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