Often times object hydration isn’t a simple matter, and requires a more nuanced, more sophisticated solution than the out-of-the-box options, available in Zend Framework, provide. Today we showcase one such solution - the Aggregate Hydrator.
Whilst there are many ways for building and executing SQL queries in Zend Framework 2, the two that I usually use, and which are also used in the ZF2 manual, are closures and the selectWith function. I previously wrote a three part series, showing how to get started using the \Zend\Db\Sql classes with Zend Framework 2, but I didn’t cover how to actually run them. So in today’s tutorial, let’s do that.
Zend Framework 2 comes packed with an assortment of new features and functionality and greatly streamlines how common scenarios, such as interacting with datasources and application configuration and caching are implemented.
Whether it’s the new HTML5 form elements and view helpers, the new implementation of Zend\Http, the Service Manager, the Event Manager or that Modules are now first-class citizens - you can’t help but see that it’s bursting at the seams.