Zen Monastery

Setup

php composer.phar create-project -sdev --repository-url="http://packages.zendframework.com" zendframework/skeleton-application path/to/install

Apache Configuration

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName zen-monastery.local
  DocumentRoot /path-to-the-project?/public
  SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
  <Directory /path-to-the-project?/public>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Notes

• -sdev is required because at the time of this writing the skeleton application is not stable. However this was not in the official documentation
• vendor directory is not in .gitignore. only vendor/bin. Then you should explicitly add any new dependencies that you don't want in version control in vendor/.gitignore
• The tutorial encourages test driven development and has testing guidelines very early on. Good.
• The tests written for the controller... lots of code. Not good.
• Great Documentation
• trouble setting up a form

ZendSkeletonApplication

Introduction

This is a simple, skeleton application using the ZF2 MVC layer and module systems. This application is meant to be used as a starting place for those looking to get their feet wet with ZF2.

Installation

Using Composer (recommended)

The recommended way to get a working copy of this project is to clone the repository and use composer to install dependencies using the create-project command:

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php --
php composer.phar create-project -sdev --repository-url="https://packages.zendframework.com" zendframework/skeleton-application path/to/install

Alternately, clone the repository and manually invoke composer using the shipped composer.phar:

cd my/project/dir
git clone git://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git
cd ZendSkeletonApplication
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install

(The self-update directive is to ensure you have an up-to-date composer.phar available.)

Another alternative for downloading the project is to grab it via curl, and then pass it to tar:

cd my/project/dir
curl -#L https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication/tarball/master | tar xz --strip-components=1

You would then invoke composer to install dependencies per the previous example.

Using Git submodules

Alternatively, you can install using native git submodules:

git clone git://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git --recursive

Virtual Host

Afterwards, set up a virtual host to point to the public/ directory of the project and you should be ready to go!

Alternatively — if you are using PHP 5.4 or above — you may start the internal PHP cli-server in the public directory:

cd public
php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 index.php

This will start the cli-server on port 8080, and bind it to all network interfaces.