PHP Nette Framework Interview Questions

Nette Framework is an open-source MVC based framework for creating web applications in PHP 5 and 7. It supports AJAX, DRY, KISS and code reusability.

Nette is a free software released under both[2] the New BSD license and the GNU GPL version 2 or 3.

You can install Nette Framework via composer or directly downloading Nette as Package from https://nette.org/en/download.

To install Nette via composer please run below command on your terminal

composer create-project nette/web-project

AS on August 2017 Nette 2.4 is latest stable version of Nette framework

• Nette 2.4 requires PHP 5.6 or newer and is compatible with PHP 7.1

Below are some key features of PHP Nette Framework

• Inbuilt Security
• Debugging Tools
• Fastest frameworks
• Active Community
• Easy to learn and understand
• Modern Framework that supports AJAX / AJAJ, Dependency Injection, SEO, DRY, KISS, MVC, Web 2.0 and cool URL
• Plugins and Extensions
• Open Source License

Nette is a full-stack framework composed of a set of decoupled and reusable components

• Application – The kernel of web application
• Bootstrap – Bootstrap of your application
• Caching – Cache layer with set of storages
• Component Model – Foundation for component systems
• DI – Dependency Injection Container
• Database – Database layer
• Finder – Finds files and directories with intuitive interface
• Forms – Greatly facilitates secure web forms
• Http – Layer for the HTTP request & response
• Latte – Amazing template engine
• Mail – Sending E-mails
• Neon – Loads and dumps NEON format
• Php Generator – PHP code generator
• Reflection – PHP class reflection enhancements
• Robot Loader – Comfortable autoloading
• Safe Stream – Safe atomic operations with files
• Security – Provides access control system
• Tester – Comfortable and easy-to-use unit testing tool
• Tokenizer – String tokenization
• Tracy – Debugging tool
• Utils – Utilities and Core Classes
• deprecated – Namespace containing deprecated classes

source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nette_Framework

If you store the constants inside parameters array in the neon file, you will be able to access it from presenter’s context like this:

// $this is instance of Nette\Application\UI\Presenter
$this->context->parameters['constants']

// $this is instance of Nette\Application\UI\Presenter
$this->context->parameters['constants']

source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37926060/how-to-get-values-from-neon-file-in-nette

Following are the list of some string Filters in Latte.

• lower: makes a string lower case
• capitalize: lower case, the first letter of each word upper case
• substr (offset [, length]): returns part of the string
• padLeft (length, pad = ‘ ‘): completes the string to given length from left
• reverse: reverse a UTF-8 string or array