Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development Table Of Content

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Creating a Basic MVC Application
• Overview of MVC architecture
• Setting up the environment
• Installation
• Creating the project structure
• Application directory structure
• Bootstrapping
• The index file
• Application configuration
• The bootstrap file
• Your first controller
• The Action Controller
• Subclassing
• Initialization
• Actions
• The standard router
• Utility methods
• Action Helpers
• Your first view
• View directories
• Creating a view
• View Helpers
• URL View Helper
• View customization
• Handling errors
• Summary

• Chapter 2: The Zend Framework MVC Architecture
• Zend framework MVC overview
• What is a request
• Request handling
• Abstractness of MVC components
• The Front Controller
• Design
• Defaults
• Using the Front Controller
• Invocation parameters
• Options
• Modules, controllers, and actions
• MVC component customization
• Plugins
• The router
• Design
• Defaults
• Using the router
• Zend_Controller_Router_Route
• Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static
• Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex
• Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname
• Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Chain
• Zend_Config
• The Dispatcher
• Design
• Request dispatching
• Using the Dispatcher
• The Request object
• Design
• Defaults
• Using the Request object
• The HTTP Request object
• The Response object
• Design
• Defaults
• Using the Response object
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Storefront Basic Setup
• Getting started
• Software requirements
• Coding standards
• The Storefront requirements
• The Storefront overview
• Basic structure and setup
• The directory structure
• Bootstrapping with Zend_Application
• Zend_Application basics
• Bootstrapping the storefront
• Zend_Application configuration
• The bootstrap class
• Creating the bootstrap resources
• Bootstrapping complete
• The basic layout
• A little task for you
• Building the Storefront
• The Storefront database
• Database installation
• Product table
• ProductImage table
• Category table
• The user table
• Introducing Zend_Db
• Adding Zend_Db to the Storefront
• Logging and debugging
• Zend_Debug
• Zend_Log
• Adding Zend_Log to the Storefront
• Using the logger
• Database profiling with Zend_Log
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Storefront Models
• Models in the Zend Framework
• Model design
• The application stack
• Fat Model Skinny Controller
• Fat Controller
• Fat Model
• Model design strategies
• Direct inheritance
• Has-a relationship (composition)
• Domain Model
• Further reading
• Storefront Models
• Model Resources
• Managing Model Resources
• Model Resource data sources
• Model Resource Items
• Resource Item business logic
• Loading Models and Resources
• Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource
• Resource Autoloading
• The SF Library
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Implementing the Catalog
• Getting started
• Creating the Catalog Model and Resources
• Catalog model skeleton
• Naming conventions
• Catalog methods
• Catalog Model Resources
• Zend_Db_Table
• Model Resource Items
• Implementing the Catalog Model
• Model Resource interfaces
• Model Resource implementation
• Catalog Model
• Loading Models and other assets
• Configuring the Autoloader
• The Zend_Db_Table bug
• Creating the Catalog Controllers
• CategoryController
• Action Stack Front Controller Plugin
• CatalogController
• Storefront routes
• Creating the Catalog Views
• Category views
• Catalog views
• Catalog View Helpers
• View Helper creation
• Creating the Catalog View Helpers
• Building and running the storefront
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Implementing User Accounts
• Creating the user model and resources
• User model
• User Model Resources
• Creating the Customer Controller
• Zend_Form
• Basic forms
• What is a Form?
• Creating a Form
• Customizing Zend_Form's output
• The Decorator pattern
• Zend_Form's Decorators
• Fixing the login forms HTML
• The User forms
• A Typical Form element
• Custom validators
• Base form decorators
• Specializing forms
• Creating the Customer Views
• Building the application
• Summary

• Chapter 7: The Shopping Cart
• Creating the Cart Model and Resources
• Cart Model
• Cart Model interfaces
• Cart Model implementation
• Cart Model Resources
• Shipping Model
• Creating the Cart Controller
• Creating the Cart Views and Forms
• Cart forms
• Add form
• Table form
• SF_Form_Abstract
• Cart View Helper
• Cart View scripts
• Cart view.phtml
• Cart _cart.phtml
• Layout main.phtml
• Catalog index.phtml
• Catalog view.phtml
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Authentication and Authorization
• Authentication versus Authorization
• Authentication with Zend_Auth
• Zend_Auth
• Authentication adapters
• Authentication results
• Identity persistence
• Authentication Service
• Customer Controller
• Authentication View Helper
• Other Authentication Service elements
• Authorization with Zend_Acl
• Zend_Acl introduction
• ACL in MVC
• Using a centralized global ACL
• Using module specific ACL's
• ACL in the Domain layer
• Model based ACL
• The Storefront ACL
• The Storefront roles
• The Storefront resources
• The new base model
• Securing the User Model
• Non-Model ACL
• Unit testing with ACL
• Summary

• Chapter 9: The Administration Area
• What is an administration area?
• Implementation options
• Implementing the storefront administration area
• Admin Route
• Admin context Front Controller plugin
• Admin layout
• Admin controller
• Catalog management
• Adding products
• Product add form
• Catalog Model
• Catalog Controller
• Securing the administration area
• ACL action helper
• Securing the Admin functions
• Catalog Model ACL
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Storefront Roundup
• Using multiple modules
• Setup
• Configuring Zend_Application
• Bootstrapping modules
• Module specific configuration
• Sharing common elements
• Services
• Services for cross module communication
• Services for extending model behavior
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Storefront Optimization
• General optimizations
• Opcode caching
• Path optimizations
• Requires and includes
• Standard caches
• Plugin loader cache
• Db table cache
• Dispatching optimizations
• Caching
• Zend_Cache
• Model data caching
• Basic class caching
• Model cache integration
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Testing the Storefront
• What is testing?
• PHPUnit and Zend_Test setup
• PHPUnit setup
• Zend_Test setup
• Handling the database
• Writing tests
• Running tests
• Adding tests to the build
• Testing the Customer Controller
• Running the Customer Controller test
• Common problems
• Summary

• Appendix: Installing Supporting Software
• Installing PHPUnit
• Installing Xdebug
• Windows installation
• Linux based installation
• OSX Installation
• Configuration
• Installing Apache Ant
• Windows installation
• Linux installation

• Index