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Zend Framework 2 Cookbook

By : Josephus Callaars, [email protected]
Book Image

Zend Framework 2 Cookbook

By: Josephus Callaars, [email protected]

Overview of this book

Zend Framework 2 is the latest creation of World Wide Web infrastructure company Zend Technologies Ltd. This new PHP framework comes with tons of features and an attractive way of creating applications. Not only is the overall usability of the technology much better, but it also makes your applications more testable, something that is often overlooked. "Zend Framework 2 Cookbook" will show you how applications are set up in Zend Framework 2 and how you can develop successfully in this massive framework. You will master features like Modules, Views, Controllers, and Authentication. The book also discusses the Event Manager, unit testing, and how to optimize your application. The book begins with a discussion about setting up Zend Framework 2, and you will also look at how the framework itself works. By the end of this book, you will be able to create entire secure applications on your own and make sure they are tested and optimized for performance as well. You will learn about sending and receiving e-mails, translation and localization of the application, and how to set up the framework on a Linux web server. You will also learn how to display data from the application to the user by using different display strategies and renderings. The creation of modules will also be discussed. Then, you will move on to look at how to authenticate users and make sure the developer knows how to pick the best method available. Unit testing, debugging, and enhancing the performance will also be covered in this book. "Zend Framework 2 Cookbook" is a perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing with Zend Framework 2.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Zend Framework 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating reusable Views


In this time of dynamic applications we have widgets or content that can be used more than once. Instead of getting everything at the same time we want to be able to dynamically load new objects in, or at least not have to do a lot to get functionality working.

Getting ready

For this recipe we need nothing more than a working Zend Framework 2 skeleton application.

How to do it…

In this recipe we'll be discussing how to create reusable templates and the best way of using them in an application.

Use the Action view helper to get the re-usable content

The Action view helper is a great way of calling different actions in our code to retrieve other parts of our application:

<div class="left">Some content on the left!</div>

<div class="right">
  <?php
    echo $this->action(
      // The action to call
      'sidebar',

      // The controller to call
      'templates',

      // The module to call
      'application',

      // Parameters to parse along...