How to Create the controller in Zend framework?

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We are now ready to set up our controller. For zend-mvc, the controller is a class that is generally called {Controller name}Controller; note that {Controller name} must start with a capital letter. This class lives in a file called {Controller name}Controller.php within the Controller subdirectory for the module; in our case that is module/Album/src/Controller/. Each action is a public method within the controller class that is named {action name}Action, where {action name} should start with a lower case letter.

Conventions not strictly enforced : This is by convention. zend-mvc doesn't provide many restrictions on controllers other than that they must implement the Zend\Stdlib\Dispatchable interface. The framework provides two abstract classes that do this for us: Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController and Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractRestfulController. We'll be using the standard AbstractActionController, but if you’re intending to write a RESTful web service, AbstractRestfulController may be useful.

Let’s go ahead and create our controller class in the file zf-tutorials/module/Album/src/Controller/AlbumController.php :

namespace Album\Controller;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;

class AlbumController extends AbstractActionController
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
    }

    public function addAction()
    {
    }

    public function editAction()
    {
    }

    public function deleteAction()
    {
    }
}

We have now set up the four actions that we want to use. They won't work yet until we set up the views. The URLs for each action are :

URL	Method called
`http://zf-tutorial.localhost/album`	`Album\Controller\AlbumController::indexAction`
`http://zf-tutorial.localhost/album/add`	`Album\Controller\AlbumController::addAction`
`http://zf-tutorial.localhost/album/edit`	`Album\Controller\AlbumController::editAction`
`http://zf-tutorial.localhost/album/delete`	`Album\Controller\AlbumController::deleteAction`

We now have a working router and the actions are set up for each page of our application.

It's time to build the view and the model layer.