Summary

In this chapter, we had a brief look at some Laminas components that were not used in the example application in this book. We learned about some components related to general purposes, such as the cache and logs.

We also learned that there is a specific component for creating distributed and decentralized applications, the Mezzio microframework. In addition, we have learned that the Laminas community provides API Tools for creating PHP APIs.

Finally, we learned about where to get help with Laminas and how to become a part of the Laminas community and improve the framework.

A real framework focuses on general issues. But you should take advantage of the extensibility and the open source features of Laminas to implement solutions for specific issues.

In conclusion, it is good to remember one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto: “Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential." Use Laminas and simplify...