Pragmatism in the real world
Zend Framework is renaming to Laminas and all the source code is moving to a new GitHub organisation. Implicitly this means a new PHP top level namespace. As you can imagine, this implies that a lot of our code will need to change, so Matthew, Michał and the team have been writing migration tooling to make this easier. It's now time to test it and they need all the help they can get on real-world… continue reading.
If you're not using the Whoops error handler with Expressive and are using the Twig renderer, then you are given no information about the problem that occurred, even in debug mode. To fix this, I changed error.html.twig to this: {% extends '@layout/default.html.twig' %} {% block title %}{{ status }} {{ reason }}{% endblock %} {% block content %} <h1>Oops!</h1> <h2>This is awkward.</h2> <p>We encountered a {{ status }} {{ reason }} error.</p> {% if status… continue reading.
Using Zend-InputFilter is remarkably easy to use: use Zend\InputFilter\Factory as InputFilterFactory; // set up InputFilter $specification = [ 'my_field' => [ 'required' => false, 'filters' => [ ['name' => 'StringTrim'], ], ], ]; $factory = new InputFilterFactory(); $inputFilter = $factory->createInputFilter($specification); // use InputFilter on some data $data['my_field] = 'Some string'; $inputFilter->setData($data); if ($inputFilter->isValid()) { Return false; } return $inputFilter->getValues(); // my_field is now trimmed How do you add your filter to it though? This is… continue reading.
Recently an issue was reported against Zend\InputFilter where the reporter has discovered a regression where the fallback value wasn't being populated correctly. Matthew investigated, fixed it and asked me to review it. I was fascinated as I didn't realise (or had completely forgotten!) that Zend\Input and Zend\InputFilter supported fallback values so I looked into it and it turns out that it's simple and works exactly as its name implies. For the basic case of using… continue reading.
I'm forever getting confused about how the combination of Zend\Input's required, allow_empty & continue_if_empty interact with an empty value, so I've decided to write it down. These settings define what happens when you try to validate an empty value for a given input. For Zend\Input, empty means exactly equal to null, an empty string or an empty array. Firstly, let's start with the three settings: Setting Default What it does required true When true, the… continue reading.
One feature of Slim 3 is that the DI container is loosely coupled to the core framework. This is done in two ways: The App composes the container instance rather than extending from it. Internally, App depends on the container implementing the container-interop interface. You can see this decoupling in the way that you instantiate a Slim 3 application: $settings = []; $container = new Slim\Container($settings); $app = new Slim\App($container); Slim 3 ships with Pimple… continue reading.
In Zend Framework 2, if you define your input filter via configuration, then you can override validation messages using a format along the lines of: <validators> <notEmpty> <messages> <isEmpty>Please provide your telephone number</isEmpty> </messages> </notEmpty> </validators> Setting the message is easy enough, once you have the correct key name. This is a list of all the keys for the standard validators: Validator Key name Default message Alnum alnumInvalid Invalid type given. String, integer or float… continue reading.
If you need to exclude some elements from a Zend\Form's getData(), the easiest way is to use a validation group. For example: class SomeForm extends \Zend\Form\Form implements \Zend\InputFilter\InputFilterProviderInterface { public function init() { $this->add([ 'name' => 'name', 'options' => ['label' => 'Name'], ]); $this->add([ 'name' => 'email', 'options' => ['label' => 'Email'], ]); $this->add([ 'name' => 'submit', 'type' => 'button', 'options' => [ 'label' => 'Filter', ], ]); $this->setValidationGroup(['name', 'email']); } public function getInputFilterSpecification() {… continue reading.
Let's say that you have an admin form where the user can enter JSON and you'd like to validate that the JSON parses before allowing the user to submit. To do this, you can use the rather excellent jsonlint project by Jordi Boggiano. Obviously, add it via Compser :) Usage is simple: use Seld\JsonLint\JsonParser; use Seld\JsonLint\ParsingException; $parser = new JsonParser(); $result = $parser->lint($json); if ($result instanceof ParsingException) { // $json is invalid JSON } We… continue reading.
Following on from looking at how to integrate Zend Framework 2 forms into Slim Framework, let's look at the changes required if you also happen to want to use Twig. When it comes to rendering the form, we would want our template to look like this: <form method="POST" role="form"> <div class="form-group"> {{ formRow(form.get('email')) }} </div> {{ formElement(form.get('submit')) }} </form> The ZF2 view helpers, formRow and formElement now look like Twig functions, however we don't want… continue reading.
