Getting started: A skeleton application¶
In order to build our application, we will start with the
ZendSkeletonApplication
available on github.
Go to https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication and click the “Zip”
button. This will download a file with a name like
zendframework-ZendSkeletonApplication-zfrelease-2.0.0beta5-2-gc2c7315.zip
or
similar.
Unzip this file into the directory where you keep all your vhosts and rename the
resultant directory to zf2-tutorial
.
ZendSkeletonApplication is set up to use Composer (http://getcomposer.org) to resolve its dependencies. In this case, the dependency is Zend Framework 2 itself.
To install Zend Framework 2 into our application we simply type:
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install
from the zf2-tutorial
folder. This takes a while. You should see an output like:
Installing dependencies from lock file
- Installing zendframework/zendframework (dev-master)
Cloning 18c8e223f070deb07c17543ed938b54542aa0ed8
Generating autoload files
We can now move on to the virtual host.
Virtual host¶
You now need to create an Apache virtual host for the application and edit your
hosts file so that http://zf2-tutorial.localhost will serve index.php
from the
zf2-tutorial/public
directory.
Setting up the virtual host is usually done within httpd.conf
or
extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
. (If you are using httpd-vhosts.conf
, ensure
that this file is included by your main httpd.conf
file.)
Ensure that NameVirtualHost
is defined and set to “*:80” or similar, and then
define a virtual host along these lines:
<VirtualHost \*:80>
ServerName zf2-tutorial.localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/zf-2tutorial/public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory /path/to/zf2-tutorial/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Make sure that you update your /etc/hosts
or
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
file so that zf2-tutorial.localhost
is mapped to 127.0.0.1
. The website can then be accessed using
http://zf2-tutorial.localhost.
If you’ve done it right, you should see something like this:
To test that your .htaccess
file is working, navigate to
http://zf2-tutorial.localhost/1234 and you should see this:
If you see a standard Apache 404 error, then you need to fix .htaccess
usage
before continuing.
You now have a working skeleton application and we can start adding the specifics for our application.