Zend Framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework for PHP 5. Zend Framework is often called a ‘component library’, because it has many loosely coupled components that you can use more or less independently. But Zend Framework also provides an advanced Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation that can be used to establish a basic structure for your Zend Framework applications.
Features:
Zend Framework features include:
- All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant
- Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
- Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
- Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server
- Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4
- Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory or a file system.
Install LAMP:
Zend Framework can be tested by creating test project; it should be placed under the document root of your web server. Web server might be Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd; for easy understanding i used Apache as web server. Here is the Step by Step guide to install LAMP server on openSUSE 12.
Open Terminal and then switch to root user.
[email protected]:~ $ su
Install Zend Framework:
Add repository for Zend Framework.
[email protected]:~ # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_12.1 zend
Refresh the system repositories, you might requires to accept the key for caching the Zend repo.
[email protected]:~ # zypper ref
Install Zend Framework on openSUSE 12.1.
[email protected]:~ # zypper in php5-ZendFramework
Confirm the installed version.
r[email protected]:~ # zf show version
Zend Framework Version: 1.11.10
Testing Zend project:
In Apache /srv/www/htdocs/ is the default document root, so i am going to create test project on /srv/www/htdocs/, go to the default document root of web server.
[email protected]:~ # cd /srv/www/htdocs/
Create the test project called geeksite.
[email protected] htdocs:~ # zf create project geeksite
Creating project at /srv/www/htdocs/geeksite
Note: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/README
Testing Note: PHPUnit was not found in your include_path, therefore no testing actions will be created.
You should get the above message after hitting Enter; if you get any error message included in above message, you required to install PHPUnit.
Optional:
Now we need to have the Zend Library files in the library directory under the created project (By default it’s empty). go to the library directory.
[email protected] geeksite:~ # cd geeksite/library/
SymLink is the better option than copying the library files to library directory; because the library files will get update when we are installing the latest Zend Framework.
[email protected] library:~ # ln -s /usr/share/php5/Zend .
Tree view of your project directory.
[email protected] geeksite:~ # tree
.
├── application
│ ├── Bootstrap.php
│ ├── configs
│ │ └── application.ini
│ ├── controllers
│ │ ├── ErrorController.php
│ │ └── IndexController.php
│ ├── models
│ └── views
│ ├── helpers
│ └── scripts
│ ├── error
│ │ └── error.phtml
│ └── index
│ └── index.phtml
├── docs
│ └── README.txt
├── library
├── public
│ └── index.php
└── tests
├── application
│ └── controllers
│ └── IndexControllerTest.php
├── bootstrap.php
├── library
└── phpunit.xml
16 directories, 11 files
Open up a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/geeksite/public. Screen Shot of Test Project in openSUSE 12.1.
That’s all!
