Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook

Over 80 highly focused practical development recipes to maximize your use of the Zend Framework

• Learn about the roles of the Model-View-Controller implementation of Zend Framework and how to unit test it
• Discover how to provide and consume web services with protocols such as SOAP and AMF and architectural designs such as REST
• An in-depth coverage of mapping between objects and your persistence layer
• Learn the inner workings and hidden options of the framework, which are not described in the official manual
• Part of the Packt Cookbook series, which aims to provide simple solutions to common problems

In Detail

Zend Framework 2.0 has a flexible architecture that lets you build modern web applications and web services easily. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure Web 2.0 applications and web services, and consuming widely available APIs from vendors such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, and Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook offers a practical guide to the inner workings and hidden options of many of the Zend Framework components. For each component that is covered the book provides usage and implementation information, as well as detailed code examples. You will learn how these important components fit into the software development process using the MVC design pattern implementation of Zend Framework and how you can leverage them to quickly solve your own design problems most efficiently.

This book is an important contribution to both beginning and practicing Zend Framework users! It is actually two books in one. First it is a catalog of the most important Zend Framework components offering an in-depth view on how to use them. Secondly it describes how these important components fit into correct application design. With Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook you discover a complete new Model-View-Controller implementation, autoloading and plugin broker system, namespaces, exception handling, backward compatibility breaks, and so on. Explore and master the service layer. Learn new ways to debug and unit test your application. Finally understand and master the decorating system used by the framework to display forms and enhance them with AJAX.

Understand the framework faster with the Zend Framework 2.0 Cookbook. If you are new to Zend Framework, you’ll leap quickly into the framework and enjoy the practical code samples and explanations. If you’re an experienced Zend Framework developer, you already recognize its convenience and you can use this book to migrate to the new version and discover all of its extraordinary power!.

A comprehensive cookbook to get things done quickly and efficiently in Zend Framework 2.0

What you will learn from this book

• Set up a Zend Framework application and start using it right away
• Use the View and the Controller to build clean, powerful applications
• Understand the domain model and make it available through a service layer
• Optimize your application with plugins and resources, and apply caching the right way
• Map your business objects such as collections and entities with your persistence layer
• Enhance the usability of your application with JavaScript and AJAX
• Create multilingual applications the easy way after having learned localization and internationalization
• Master Zend Form Decorators to create form markup the way you want
• Log errors, debug your application, and avoid breaks with functional and integration testing
• Discover powerful features such as namespaces and SPL Exception handling in Zend Framework 2.0

Approach

This is a cookbook, with practical recipes providing tips and tricks for the most common problems and scenarios faced with Zend Framework 2.0. Packed with code snippets and screenshots, this book focuses on learning by doing, with everything explained in an easy-to-understand manner.

Who this book is written for

If you are an object oriented PHP developer who wants to learn and master Zend Framework 2.0 then this book is for you!