Getting Started with Zend Framework

Getting Startedwith Zend FrameworkMatthew Weier O'Phinney

Software Architect

Zend Framework

Dec 8, 2008 | Getting Started With Zend Framework2 |

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Who's this guy?


Matthew Weier O'Phinney

•Contributor to Zend Framework since pre-0.1.0; used ZF internally at Zend.

•Component lead on MVC since August 2006.

•Full-time Zend Framework developer since December 2007.

•Software Architect since April 2008.


What we'll cover

• Bird's-eye view of Zend Framework

• How to start integrating Zend Framework in your applications

• MVC overview

• Quick Start to developing applications using Zend Framework's MVC


What is Zend Framework?

It's just another PHP framework


No, what is Zend Framework?

It's a glue library.


No, really, what is Zend Framework?

• PHP 5 library for web development productivity

• Open source New BSD license is business-friendly

Free for development and distribution

CLA process assures that the code is free of legal issues

• Class library – fully OOP

• Documentation – in many languages

• Quality & testing – fully unit tested >80% code coverage required; >90% encouraged


Zend Framework Philosophy

• Simplicity and Extensibility Easy solutions for the 80% most commonly-used functionality for web

applications

Extensibility enables easy customization, to solve the remaining 20%

No complex XML configuration files

• Good object-oriented and agile practices Use-at-will architecture, but also:

Full stack framework

Designed for extensibility

Frequent testing

Frequent interaction with user community


Zend Framework quality process

1.Say what you’re going to do Proposal process

2.Do it Write object oriented components

Unit test your component• We encourage test-driven development (TDD)

Document how it works

3.Verify it matches what you said Open-source development and community review

Frequent and thorough testing with PHPUnit

Code coverage reports with PHPUnit

Review by internal Zend team for compliance

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What's in Zend Framework?


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How to get started


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Two approaches

• Start using individual components in your existing applications• Gradual migration path

• Add new functionality to your application as you need it

• Replace existing functionality with well-tested components

• Start using the Zend Framework MVC layer• Develop new applications

• Have ZF intercept new functionality in your site

• Create well-tested and testable applications in Zend Framework


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MVC Overview


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Model-View-Controller

• Model: Business logic and abstraction

• View: Presentation layer

• Controller: Decide which Models and Views to utilize, based on request


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Front Controller

• Intercept all requests

• Map requests to Action Controllers

• Dispatch requested Action Controller and return response


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Benefits of MVC

• Separate your code into discrete realms of responsibility• Business logic

• Presentation logic

• Route decisioning

• Predictable location of code on the server

• Typically utilizes OOP => easier to test and re-use• Easier to maintain long term


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Quick Start


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Setup the Project Structure

• First things first: create your directory structure


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Get Zend Framework

• From http://framework.zend.com/download/latest


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Get Zend Framework

• Extract the archive• tar xzf ZendFramework-1.6.1.tar.gz

• Unzip ZendFramework-1.6.1.zip

• Or use a GUI frontend

• Copy or symlink the library/Zend directory you extracted into your library directory:


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Create a Virtual Host

• Simplest version:


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Create your .htaccess file

• php.ini directives:• date.timezone: many apps rely on this

• short_open_tags: view scripts are easier to write with this on

• error_reporting: default error reporting level – E_ALL|E_STRICT for development

• display_errors: turn on for development


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Create your .htaccess file

• RewriteRules: any request to a file that does not exist should go to our Zend Framework bootstrap:


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Create your bootstrap files

• index.php: • Indicate we need bootstrapping for our application

• Load our bootstrap file, and handle any errors

• Dispatch our front controller


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index.php


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Create your bootstrap files

• application/bootstrap.php:• Setup application constants

• Web bootstrap related setup include_path Setup autoloading

• Front controller setup Add a controller directory Set some application parameters


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application/bootstrap.php


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Create a controller

• All controllers extend Zend_Controller_Action

• Naming conventions• Controllers end with 'Controller':

IndexController, GuestbookController

• Action methods end with 'Action':signAction(), displayAction(), listAction()

• Controllers should be in the application/controllers/ directory, and named after the class, with a “.php” suffix:application/controllers/IndexController.phpapplication/controllers/GuestbookController.php

• All “conventions” are configurable!


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IndexController.php


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But... there's no code there...

• By default, a view is rendered; you don't need to do anything to enable this.

• The view rendered is <controllername>/<action>.phtml

• The view script path resolution is configurable!


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Create a view script

• View scripts go in application/views/scripts/

• View script resolution looks for a view script in a subdirectory named after the controller• Controller name used is same as it appears on the url:

“GuestbookController” appears on the URL as “guestbook” “GuestBookController” appears on the URL as “guest-book” Basically, MixedCased becomes dash-separated

• View script name is the action name as it appears on the url:• “signAction()” appears on the URL as “sign”

• “myAccountAction()” appears on the URL as “my-account”

• Basically, camelCased becomes dash-separated


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index/index.phtml view script


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But... that's just HTML!

• View scripts use PHP as their templating language – PHP is a template language!

• Mix HTML and PHP

• Use alternate control structure annotations for readability

• Use short tags (heavily debated) for brevity


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Create an ErrorController

• Application errors are trapped by the front controller by default

• When exceptions are detected, ErrorController::errorAction() is invoked

• Separate 404 (Not Found) errors from 500 (Application) errors to return proper response codes to the user

• Display errors in development, log them in production

• Alternately, do something else:• Perform a search based on the originally requested URL

• Display a site map


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ErrorController.php


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Create a view script for the ErrorController

• We have a controller and action, so we need a view script

• Appears in error/error.phtml of the view scripts directory


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error/error.phtml


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But wait, these aren't complete HTML pages!

• You're right – they are your application views

• This leads into our next topic: layouts


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Layouts – Design Patterns

• Two Step View• Inject application views into a common view to return

• Usually associated with a Transform View – think XSLT

• Composite View• Inject rendered views into a common view, OR

• Render additional views from a master view

• In a nutshell: build the site view, or layout, from lots of little building blocks, or application views


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Layouts – Example Use Cases

• We want our application views to appear in this:


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Zend_Layout

Steps:

• Initialize layouts

• Perform view initialization (set doctype, etc)

• Create a layout script


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Zend_Layout: bootstrap changes


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Zend_Layout: layout script


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Configuring your Application

• Zend Framework is configuration-less

• But your application may need configuration

• Zend_Config...• allows you to write configurations in several formats

• provides OOP access to your configuration

• provides configuration inheritance between sections

• Zend_Registry allows you to persist objects – including your configuration – for the duration of the request• Put stuff in

• Take stuff out


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Sample INI configuration skeleton


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Configuration: bootstrap.php changes


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What about the M? The Model?

Patterns:

• Table Data Gateway• Abstracts SQL access to a single database table and its rows

• Often used with Row Data Gateway, which abstracts access to a single table row

• Table Module• Abstracts and restricts access to a table

• Defines entry points to the table

• Entry methods contain business logic

• Domain Model• Abstracts entities and their relationships

• Not necessarily a 1:1 correspondence with tables


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Setting up the Database Adapter

• Zend_Db::factory() will instantiate the requested adapter

• Pass our configuration to it• Negates the need to modify code going from development to testing

to production

• Set the adapter as the default adapter for our Table Data Gateway (Zend_Db_Table)


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DB Adapter – Configuration and Bootstrap


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Table Data Gateway: Zend_Db_Table

• Abstracts SQL for interacting with a database table

• Fetch Rowsets or individual Rows

• Override methods to enforce data integrity

• In our application• Ensure we get a “created” timestamp on each row

• Prevent updates to existing rows


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Model_DbTable_Guestbook


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Model: Table Module

• Identify access methods:• Save entries

• Fetch all entries

• Fetch individual entry

• Attach a data source• Often a Table Data Gateway

• In our case, Model_DbTable_Guestbook


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Table Module – Retrieve Table Data Gateway


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Table Module – Access Methods


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Using the Model in the Controller

• Controller needs to retrieve Model

• To start, let's fetch listings


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Adding the Model to the Controller


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Create a Form

Zend_Form:

• Provides input filtering:• Filter chains to sanitize data prior to validation

• Validation chains to ensure the data provided is valid

• Allows rendering form• Follows decorator pattern

• Completely configurable

• Output in any format your application needs: HTML, PDF, XML, etc.


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Create a form – Identify elements

Guestbook form:

• Email address

• Comment

• Captcha to reduce spam entries

• Submit button


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Create a form – Guestbook form


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Create a form – Guestbook form (cont.)


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Using the Form in the Controller

• Controller needs to fetch form object

• On landing page, display the form

• On POST requests, attempt to validate the form

• On successful submission, redirect


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Adding the form to the controller


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Demonstration


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Summary


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What we learned

• Recommended project structure

• How to get and install Zend Framework

• How to configure your Apache vhost

• How to setup your php.ini settings and RewriteRules

• What your bootstrap files are and what they should contain

• How to create Action Controllers and View Scripts

• How to create and initialize layouts

• How to use configuration and the registry

• How to create a model, including database access

• How to create a form


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Where to go from here

• Zend Framework QuickStart Guide:http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart

• Zend Framework Manualhttp://framework.zend.com/manual/manual

• Zend Framework Wiki (proposals, tutorials, etc.)http://framework.zend.com/wiki

• Zend Developer Zone (tutorials, articles, announcements)http://devzone.zend.com/

Thank you!

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