Building PHP Applications with Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework
Bartosz Porebski
Language: English
Pages: 576
ISBN: 0470887346
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The first detailed, unbiased comparison of the three leading PHP frameworks
Web developers have been eager for an impartial comparison of leading PHP frameworks so they can make educated decisions about the most effective tool for their needs. This guide uses Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework to solve key problems, providing source code examples and comparisons for each. It explains the approach and reviews the similarities and differences in the three frameworks, providing reliable information on which to base your decisions.
- Symfony, CakePHP, and Zend Framework are considered the leading PHP frameworks; developers need an unbiased comparison to choose which one works best for their individual situations
- This guide uses each framework to solve the same problems, illustrating the solutions with source code examples and working applications
- Covers wide range of topics, from installation and configuration to most advanced features like AJAX, web services and automated testing.
- Includes an appendix of new PHP frameworks, including CodeIgniter, Lithium, and Agavi
- Bestselling PHP author Elizabeth Naramore serves as technical editor
Comparison of PHP Web Frameworks provides the impartial, side-by-side comparison that developers have been looking for.
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Structure IDE Support Chapter 3: Working with Databases Object-Relational Mapping Database Configuration Communication with a Database Chapter 4: Your First Application in the Three Frameworks 3 Design Symfony CakePHP Zend Framework Chapter 5: Forms Field Validation Customizing Forms Using Captcha as Spam Protection Chapter 6: Mailing Creating Mailing Applications SwiftMailer CakePHP's Mailing Component Zend Mailer PHPMailer Chapter 7: Searching Problem Solutions 4 Chapter 8: Security
databases are built on client-server architecture, in which the database is a standalone process of the operating system, and all applications need to establish connections with it. SQLite is completely different. It works as a statically or dynamically linked programming library that is embedded into applications, allowing communication with the database by function calls (which is much more efficient). This approach also removes the necessities of installation and administration. The whole
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/data /symfony/web/sf/ Restart the Apache server. The resulting webpage will look like Figure 2.9. Figure 2.9 Sample Symfony project It is perfectly okay to use the sandbox version of Symfony stored in the web root folder for learning and development because it is a complete installation of Symfony. However, for production environments you have to separate the configuration files from the web presentation files for security reasons. Otherwise,
sandbox application, so installing from archive means just extracting its contents to a directory of your choice. 113 Configuration There are some minor tasks that need to be done before you can create your sample projects. The solutions presented here are absolutely the simplest methods to make things work and sometimes are not elegant. If you are experienced in operating systems and web development, you can add several upgrades such as separating your development environment from the web
array(‘type’ => ‘datetime’, ‘null’ => false, ‘default’ => NULL), ‘indexes’ => array(‘PRIMARY’ => array(‘column’ => ‘id’, ‘unique’ => 1)) ); } ?> code snippet /communication/cakephp/app/config/schema/ schema.php It is possible to declare only some basic types of data, such as string, text, integer, datetime, date, and so on. Developers are free to use the before() and after() methods to implement code before and after callback to the schema. The variable $user is the name of the table that you