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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

API development


In this code, we will need to follow the same approach used in all the chapters related with the user wall. We need to create a new table to hold the data, then create the table gateway to be able to access the data, and finally modify the controller to add the new type of content to the create() method.

Requirements

We are not going to modify the way API works or the way developers interact with the API. This means that we will keep using the same HTTP methods as before and will modify the create() method to detect new content we want to add, and redirect the job to the proper specialized method.

Working with the database

Let's take a look at the structure of the new table we have to create to store the comments of the users.

This table is named user_comments, and will hold the following data:

  • Id

  • User_id

  • Type

  • Entity_id

  • Comment

  • Created at

  • Updated at

Also, in this table, as with all the ones we already created, we will add two columns to store the time where a record is created and updated...