In this article, we will create a Zend Framework2 skeleton application using zftool in Ubuntu 12.04.
In our previous article titled “Setting up Zend Framework2 Skeleton application in LAMP“, we had setup a Zend Framework2 skeleton application which is downloaded from http://github.com.
In order to develop a Zend Framework2 application, we need to have a web server with PHP installed. For installing Apache2 web server and PHP in Ubuntu, you can follow the given below articles.
Installing and Starting Apache2 Web Server in Ubuntu 12.04
Installing PHP in Ubuntu 12.04 to work with Apache2 web server
1. Download zftool (zftool.phar) from the given below link
https://packages.zendframework.com/zftool.phar
2.Copy the downloaded, zftool.phar file to the directory /var/www
$sudo cp zftool.phar /var/www
3. Create a Zend Framework2 skeleton application namely “Zf2SkeletonApplicationWithZftool”
$sudo php zftool.phar create project Zf2SkeletonApplicationWithZftool
4. Installing Zend Framework2 library to this application
$cd Zf2SkeletonApplicationWithZftool $sudo php composer.phar self-update $sudo php composer.phar install
5. Append the given below entry to the file /etc/hosts to add hostname
127.0.0.1 zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local
6. Create a file namely zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local in /etc/apache2/sites-available with the given below directive to create a virtual host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local
DocumentRoot /var/www/Zf2SkeletonApplicationWithZftool/public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory /var/www/zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
7. Enable the site zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local
$sudo a2ensite zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local
8. Enable Apache’s rewrite module
$sudo a2enmod rewrite
9. Restart Apache2 Web server
$sudo service apache2 restart
10. Accessing the application at the URL : http://zf2skeletonapplicationwithzftool.local
Figure 1 : Screenshot of the Zend Framework2 application
11. What is next?
A continuation to this article is available at “Zend Framework2 – Creating module, controller, actions, views and routing” .
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