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Phalcon Cookbook

By : Serghei Iakovlev, David Schissler
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Book Image

Phalcon Cookbook

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By: Serghei Iakovlev, David Schissler

Overview of this book

Phalcon is a high-performance PHP framework delivered as a PHP extension. This provides new opportunities for speed and application design, which until recently have been unrealized in the PHP ecosystem. Packed with simple learning exercises, technology prototypes, and real-world usable code, this book will guide you from the beginner and setup stage all the way to advanced usage. You will learn how to avoid niche pitfalls, how to use the command-line developer tools, how to integrate with new web standards, as well as how to set up and customize the MVC application structure. You will see how Phalcon can be used to quickly set up a single file web application as well as a complex multi-module application suitable for long-term projects. Some of the recipes focus on abstract concepts that are vital to get a deep comprehension of Phalcon and others are designed as a vehicle to deliver real-world usable classes and code snippets to solve advanced problems. You’ll start out with basic setup and application structure and then move onto the Phalcon MVC and routing implementation, the power of the ORM and Phalcon Query Language, and Phalcon’s own Volt templating system. Finally, you will move on to caching, security, and optimization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Phalcon Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing alternative access control lists


In this recipe, we will learn how to extend the base Phalcon ACL with a more feature-rich version from Phalcon Incubator. This powerful ACL class has built-in support for PDO databases and can even directly add, delete, and modify the database to construct the ACL data through its API. This recipe is a bit different in that we will only be importing the structure of the database without any specific entries to describe the permissions. We will fill this data by first running a CLI task to generate our permissions using the Incubator ACL class and then we will test them using the web environment.

Following is the source for more resources:

Getting ready…

This recipe uses Phalcon Developer Tools, which we will use to set up a project skeleton, as well as Composer for installing the Phalcon Incubator resources.

We will need a database connection for this recipe.

We need to install Composer to...