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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

HTML fragments for AJAX-based applications


With the rise in popularity of the Internet, sites are becoming more and more interesting and complex. Simply showing the site content or redirecting users to other, required pages are already antiquated methods. The modern user is an experienced consumer. To keep users on your site, you need to keep them interested by providing friendly interfaces. In particular, one of the best technologies we can use is dynamic, new content loading by certain user actions instead of reloading the whole page. By this, we mean AJAX. In this recipe, we will look into how to use the HTML snippets together with the Volt Template Engine in an application which uses AJAX requests.

We will take a look at a small application that works with customers and orders. We will implement a page where you can select a customer and see the last 10 orders of that customer.

Getting ready

For successful implementation of this recipe you need to have an application with Volt Template...