Tips and Tricks

This chapter provides some tips and tricks that will help you as a developer to solve some problems that may eventually appear in the construction of a web application.

We will first start by learning what the required methods for creating mapped models, that is, classes that are connected to database tables, are.

After that, we will learn how to customize filters and validators to implement specific business rules in the model layer.

Then, we will understand the Laminas view layer better, learning how to produce JSON responses, manage file uploads, and change the application layout.

Finally, we will be mastering the Laminas controller layer, by learning how to detect AJAX requests, how to exchange messages between the controller and view layers, and what the different ways of ending a controller action are.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to meet eventual demands on web applications using the Laminas framework.

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