About the Book

"Web Development with Zend Framework 2" is the first and only book about the brand new Zend Framework 2 - it's written for beginners as well as advanced users and it covers the fundamental concepts and brings tons of practical solutions for your daily business. "Web Development with Zend Framework 2" is the translation of the bestselling German book "Webentwicklung mit Zend Framework 2" with hundreds of downloads on Leanpub and Amazon.

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This book is a translation into English of Webentwicklung mit Zend Framework 2, which was originally written in German.
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1 Important notice for Amazon customers
2 Introduction
- 2.1 Who is this book for?
- 2.2 Structure of this book
- 2.3 Repetitions
- 2.4 Code Downloads
- 2.5 How you can best work with this book
- 2.6 Found a bug?
- 2.7 Conventions used in this book
3 Zend Framework 2 - An overview
- 3.1 How Zend Framework 2 is being developed
- 3.2 Module system
- 3.3 Event system
- 3.4 MVC implementation
- 3.5 Additional components
- 3.6 Design Patterns: Interface, Factory, Manager, etc.
4 Hello, Zend Framework 2!
- 4.1 Installation
- 4.2 ZendSkeletonApplication
- 4.3 Composer
- 4.4 A first sign of life
- 4.5 Directory structure of a Zend Framework 2 application
- 4.6 The index.php file
5 A first custom module
- 5.1 Preparing the “Hello World” module
- 5.2 Autoloading
6 One time Request and back again
- 6.1 ServiceManager
- 6.2 Writing your own service
- 6.3 ModuleManager
- 6.4 Application
- 6.5 ViewManager
- 6.6 Summary
7 EventManager
- 7.1 Registering a listener
- 7.2 Registering several listeners at the same time
- 7.3 Removing a registered listener
- 7.4 Trigger an event
- 7.5 SharedEventManager
- 7.6 Using events in one’s own classes
8 Modules
- 8.1 The “Application” module
- 8.2 Module-dependent behaviour
- 8.3 Installing a third-party module
- 8.4 Configuring a third-party module
9 Controller
- 9.1 Concept & mode of operation
- 9.2 Controller plugins
- 9.3 Writing your own controller plugin
10 Views
- 10.1 Concept & mode of operation
- 10.2 Layouts
- 10.3 Writing your own View Helper
11 Model
- 11.1 Entities, repositories & value objects
- 11.2 Business Services & Factories
- 11.3 Business events
12 Routing
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Definition of Routes
- 12.3 Matching test
- 12.4 Generation of a URL
- 12.5 Default Routing
- 12.6 Creative routing: A/B tests
13 Dependency injection
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Zend\Di for object graphs
- 13.3 Zend\Di for configuration management
14 Persistence with Zend\Db
- 14.1 Connecting to databases
- 14.2 Generating and executing SQL-Statements
- 14.3 Working with tables and entries
- 14.4 Organisation of database queries
- 14.5 Zend\DB alternative: Doctrine 2 ORM
15 Validators
- 15.1 Standard validators
- 15.2 Writing your own validator
16 Webforms
- 16.1 Preparing a form
- 16.2 Displaying a form
- 16.3 Editing form entries
- 16.4 Validating form entries
- 16.5 Standard form elements
- 16.6 Fieldsets
- 16.7 Linking entities with Forms
17 Logging & Debugging
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 FirePHP for Firefox
- 17.3 ChromePHP for Chrome
- 17.4 Zend\Log
- 17.5 Zend\Log with FirePHP
- 17.6 Zend\Log with ChromePHP
- 17.7 Using Zend\Log independent of the situation
- 17.8 Additional Zend\Log options
18 Unit Testing
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Testing a service
- 18.3 Testing a controller
19 User management
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 User authentication
- 19.3 User sessions
- 19.4 Resources & roles
- 19.5 Zfc user
20 ZF2 on the command line
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Invocation via the Console
- 20.3 Console routes and request processing
21 Internationalization
- 21.1 Numerical, monetary and date formats
- 21.2 Text translations
- 21.3 Determining and configuring the locale
22 AJAX & Web services
- 22.1 AJAX with JSON
- 22.2 AJAX with HTML
- 22.3 RESTful web services
23 Sending emails
24 Sending an email
- 24.1 Sending a HTML email
- 24.2 Using templates for HTML emails
- 24.3 Sending emails with attachments
25 Navigations & Breadcrumbs
- 25.1 Generating navigations
- 25.2 Generating an application navigation
- 25.3 Generating breadcrumbs
26 Speeding up applications by caching
- 26.1 Introduction
- 26.2 Opcode cache
- 26.3 Zend\Cache
- 26.4 Identifying performance bottlenecks
27 Developers’ Dairy
- 27.1 Introduction
- 27.2 Envisioning
- 27.3 Sprint 1 - Code Repository, Development Environment and the initial Codebase
- 27.4 Sprint 2 - A custom module with add product functionality
- 27.5 Sprint 3 - Add a deal, show available deals
- 27.6 Sprint 4 - Order form
- 27.7 Sprint 5 - Make ZfDeals available as a ZF2 module
- 27.8 What’s next?

About the Author

Michael Romer

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Hi there -

My name is Michael Romer. I manage agile software development projects and teams using Scrum and Kanban. I help web companies with their products and technology and I code web applications using PHP5 and Zend Framework 2. I used to work for eBay, daparto und erento and now I'm heading the "Digital Services" department of a huge German publishing house.