this print for content only—size & color not accurate spine = 1.1163" 592 page count Books for professionals By professionals ® Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP Dear Reader, Many programming books on the market today focus specifically on a particu- lar methodology or software package, and although you will gain a solid under- standing of the subject matter from these books, you won’t always know how to apply what you’ve learned in a real-world situation. This book is designed to show you how to bring together many different ideas and features by start- ing with a clean slate and gradually building the code base so it evolves into a complete web application. The premise of the application we build in this book is that it is a “Web 2.0” application. What this means is that (among other things) our application gen- erates accessible and standards-compliant code while making heavy of use of Ajax. We achieve this by using the Smarty ™ Template Engine and Cascading Style Sheets, as well as the Prototype JavaScript library. Additionally, we create a fun and intuitive interface by applying simple visual effects on various pages using the Script.aculo.us JavaScript library. To help with the development of the extensive PHP code in this book, we use the Zend Framework. This is an open source PHP 5 library that contains many different components that you can easily use in any of your day-to-day development. We use many of the Zend Framework components in this book, such as database abstraction (with a focus on MySQL ® and PostgreSQL), logging, authentication, and search. The “Web 2.0” application that we build in this book is a collaborative blogging tool. It will allow users to register and create a personal blog. When creating blog posts, users will be able upload images, apply tags, and assign locations (using Google Maps). 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The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com. 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page ii www.it-ebooks.info Contents at a Glance About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii ■CHAPTER 1 Application Planning and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ■CHAPTER 2 Setting Up the Application Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ■CHAPTER 3 User Authentication, Authorization, and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ■CHAPTER 4 User Registration, Login, and Logout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 ■CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Prototype and Scriptaculous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 ■CHAPTER 6 Styling the Web Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 ■CHAPTER 7 Building the Blogging System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 ■CHAPTER 8 Extending the Blog Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 ■CHAPTER 9 Personalized User Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 ■CHAPTER 10 Implementing Web 2.0 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 ■CHAPTER 11 A Dynamic Image Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 ■CHAPTER 12 Implementing Site Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 ■CHAPTER 13 Integrating Google Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 ■CHAPTER 14 Deployment and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 ■INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 iii 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page iii www.it-ebooks.info 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page iv www.it-ebooks.info Contents About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii ■CHAPTER 1 Application Planning and Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What Is Web 2.0? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Database Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Web Site Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Web Site Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Main Home Page and User Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 User Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Account Login and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 User Blogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Web Site Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Application Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Other Aspects of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Search-Engine Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 PHPDoc-Style Commenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Application Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Maintainability and Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Version Control and Unit Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ■CHAPTER 2 Setting Up the Application Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Web Server Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Installing the Apache HTTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Installing MySQL 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Installing PHP 5.2.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 v 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page v www.it-ebooks.info ■CONTENTSvi Application Filesystem Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Web Root Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Data Storage Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 PHP Classes Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Templates Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Full Directory Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Installing the Zend Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Configuring the Web Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Creating a Virtual Host in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Creating a Virtual Host in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Restarting Your Web Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Setting Up the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Separating Application Logic from Presentation Logic . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Directing All Requests to index.php . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Introduction to the Zend_Controller Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 How Requests Work with Zend_Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Creating the IndexController . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Defining Application Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connecting to the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Testing the Database Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Smarty Template Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Why Not Use a Different Template Engine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Downloading and Installing Smarty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Automatic View Rendering with Zend_Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Integrating Smarty with the Web Site Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adding Logging Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Writing to the Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 ■CHAPTER 3 User Authentication, Authorization, and Management . . . . . . 45 Creating the User Database Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Timestamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Introduction to Zend_Auth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Instantiating Zend_Auth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Authenticating with Zend_Auth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Introduction to Zend_Acl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 A Zend_Acl Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page vi www.it-ebooks.info Combining Zend_Auth, Zend_Acl, and Zend_Controller_Front . . . . . . . . 57 Managing User Records with DatabaseObject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 The DatabaseObject_User Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Using DatabaseObject_User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Managing User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Using Profile_User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Integrating Profile_User with DatabaseObject_User . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 ■CHAPTER 4 User Registration, Login, and Logout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Adding User Registration to the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Creating the Form Processor for User Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Displaying the Registration Form and Processing Registrations . . . 81 Adding CAPTCHA to the User Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Adding E-mail Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Implementing Account Login and Logout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Creating the Login Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Adding the Account Controller Login Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Logging Successful and Failed Login Attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Logging Users Out of Their Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Dealing with Forgotten Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Resetting a User’s Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Functions for Resetting Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Implementing Account Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Creating the Account Home Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Updating the Web Site Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Allowing Users to Update Their Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ■CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Prototype and Scriptaculous . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Downloading and Installing Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Prototype Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Selecting Objects in the Document Object Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 The $() Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 The getElementsByClassName() Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 The $$() Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 The getElementsBySelector() Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Prototype’s Hash Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 ■CONTENTS vii vii 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page vii www.it-ebooks.info Other Element Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Showing and Hiding Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Retrieving Dimensions of Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Managing Classes of Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Manipulating Strings with Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Ajax Operations in Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Ajax Request Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Ajax Callback Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 An Ajax.Request Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Event Handling in Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Observing an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Finding Out Which Element an Event Occurred On . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Canceling an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Creating JavaScript Classes in Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Creating a Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Binding Function Calls to Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 From Prototype to Scriptaculous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Prebuilt Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Drag and Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Visual Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 DOM Element Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 JavaScript Unit Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Downloading and Installing Scriptaculous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Combining Prototype, Scriptaculous, Ajax, and PHP in a Useful Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Creating the Main HTML Page: index.php . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Styling the Application: styles.css . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Creating and Populating the Database: schema.sql . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Managing the List Items on the Server Side: items.php . . . . . . . . 159 Processing Ajax Requests on the Server Side: processor.php . . . 161 Creating the Client-Side Application Logic: scripts.js . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 ■CHAPTER 6 Styling the Web Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Adding Page Titles and Breadcrumbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 The Breadcrumbs Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Generating URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Setting the Title and Trail for Each Controller Action . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Creating a Smarty Plug-In to Output Breadcrumbs . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Displaying the Page Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 ■CONTENTSviii 9063CH00CMP3 11/19/07 8:39 PM Page viii 809b8b6f91d5ff50033254241f3132ed www.it-ebooks.info [...]... fresh version of PHP Note that these commands only include the minimum options required for compatibility with the code in this book # tar -zxf php- 5.2.3.tar.gz # cd php- 5.2.3 # /configure with- apxs2 \ with- gd with- curl \ with- mysql with- pdo-mysql \ with- jpeg-dir with- png-dir \ with- freetype-dir with- zlib # make # make install Once these commands have successfully executed, PHP should be compiled... command, the Apache httpd.conf file will be modified to load the PHP library; however, you may still need to add the following lines to ensure that Apache recognizes files with the extension php as PHP files: AddType application/x-httpd -php php AddType application/x-httpd -php- source phps This second line is optional, but it is included with the PHP documentation, so I have included it here You should also... We will be using many PHP 5-specific features, so you will not be able to run the code in this book on PHP 4 Strictly speaking, you can use a version of PHP 5 earlier than 5.2.3, but it is best to use the latest available version Note that the Zend Framework requires a minimum PHP version of 5.1.4 Download PHP 5.2.3 (or later) from the PHP web site (http://www .php. net/downloads .php) , and use the following... book, we will develop the entire application within a directory called /var/www/ phpweb20 (with “phpweb20” referring to the title of this book) You can, of course, use whichever directory on your own server that you choose, although we will refer back to this directory name on several occasions Web Root Directory We need to define a root directory for the web server to access This is the directory specified... implementing web applications • Chapter 2, Setting Up the Application Framework In this chapter, we begin to implement the web application This process begins by correctly setting up the environment (that is, installing the correct web server software) and then by creating the initial file structure of the site In addition to connecting to the database with PHP we will handle , user requests with the Zend... implement in place of Zend_Db Web Site Templates One of the reasons PHP has become so popular is that you can easily include PHP code directly within the HTML code you want to output This makes developing simple and small web applications very easy; however, this typically doesn’t scale well When an application grows large, it becomes difficult either to add new functionality within a bunch of HTML markup... (http://www.recite com.au) with two partners Recite Media develops web applications primarily for other development or design companies to resell Its flagship product, Recite CMS, is being used by some of Australia’s largest companies Quentin also runs and writes for his PHP development resource site, PhpRiot (www.phpriot.com), which provides a number of useful articles on a wide variety of PHP- related topics... each user a public home page within our application web site in which all of their blog posts are shown This chapter shows how to implement more advanced URL schemes, as well as shows you how to enable users to customize their own experience by managing their own profiles and settings • Chapter 10, Implementing Web 2.0 Features Although several of the features we define as Web 2.0 (such as standards compliancy... Is Web 2.0? So exactly what defines a web site as being Web 2.0 ? There are many different opinions on this, making it difficult to pinpoint an exact definition; however, some of the features typically associated with Web 2.0 sites are as follows: • Using standards-compliant HTML and CSS This allows sites to work across many platforms and helps with accessibility This includes the use of microformats... Allowing syndication of web site content using RSS • Adding wikis, blogs, or tags Although not everybody is an advocate of the Web 2.0 phrase, the term does signify forward progress in web development And although not everybody has the need to provide a wiki or a blog on their web site, the other characteristics listed (such as correct standards usage) provide a good basis for a web site and should be . $44.99 Shelve in PHP User level: Intermediate–Advanced Zervaas Web 2. 0 Applications with PHP The eXperT’s Voice ® in WeB DeVelopmenT Practical Web 2. 0 Applications. finish RELATED TITLES Practical www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Quentin Zervaas Practical Web 2. 0 Applications with PHP 906 3CH00CMP3 11/19 /07 8:39 PM Page