Installation and Configuration

As I'm not very challenged by doing monotonic and repetitive work, as the building of custom controller and model classes of the Zend Framework is, I crafted an automation solution for these two tasks using Phing. The tasks I wanted to automate were the creation of custom controller and model class by calling a build file. So I wrote two templates deriving from Zend_Controller_Action and Zend_Db_Table including some common methods used in all my controller/model classes like i.e. getModelInstance() in any custom Zend_Db_Table derivation.

After spending too much time on directory and view script shifting to align an 'older' Zend Framework application to the very useful ViewRenderer Action Helper of the follow-up releases I crafted a single Phing buildfile to stick to the recommended conventions and to have a nearly 'one-button' setup solution for any upcoming projects.

If you are looking for a quick way to get started with the Zend Framework, then you should download this file. This download has a default setup for the Zend Framework, including: * A conventional directory structure * A bootstrap file * A configuration file with 2 stages: production, staging * An error controller * An index controller * etc

A small tutorial about setting up the zend framework. Explained as easy as possible, to get you started as quickly as possible, without too much fuss. It's meant for people who are new to the framework.

Zend class has now gone! This is good news as the Zend class was schizophrenic and provided functions responsible for file loading, registry, debugging and version information! Another side effect is that the entire Zend Framework is stored within the Zend directory making those who use svn:externals on their lib directory happier.

This article can be useful to anyone who is trying to add a PHP application, like WordPress or MediaWiki to the Web application that uses the Zend_Controller class, which is a part of Zend Framework.

Setting up the Zend Framework is easy even on shared hosts since no binaries need to be installed. But if you don't know the intricacies of Apache and PHP, certain requests can fail to work for seemingly no apparent reason.

If you want to have your ZF aplication still working after migration from 0.2.0 to 0.6.0, you should make some changes in your code. However, it's desribed in manual, but only for Zend_Controller classes.