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CLI applications are executed from the command line. They are useful to create cron jobs, scripts, command utilities and more. Structure

In addition to its ability to map tables in relational databases,

Actions are methods on a controller that handle requests. By default all public methods on a controller map to actions and are accessible by a URL. Actions are responsible

Hydration Modes As mentioned previously, resultsets are collections of complete objects, this means that every returned result is an object

When a process performs multiple database operations, it might be important that each step is completed successfully so that data integrity can be maintained. Transactions

Phalcon provides the Phalcon\Cache class allowing faster

Namespaces can be used to avoid class name collisions;

A model represents the information (data) of the application and the rules to manipulate that data. Models are primarily used for managing the rules of interaction with a corresponding

Phalcon\Acl provides an easy and lightweight management of ACLs as well as the permissions