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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


Now that we have all the work done at the API level we need to adjust the frontend to store the access token once we log in to the app and pass the access token along with the request while accessing the API. We will also set up the expiration on the containers of the session because the token has expiration.

Modifying ApiClient.php

As this is the centralized point for all the API requests, this is the only place where we need to send the access token to the API. We need to first import the Container component by using the following code to access the sessions we are using to store the access token:

useZend\Session\Container;

After that, we will create a new property using the following code to store the session object to avoid creating it over and over again:

protected static $session = null;

Then we need to create the following method to retrieve the Container object:

public static function getSession()
{
    if (self::$session === null) {
        self::$session = new Container('oauth_session...