Zend Framework on XAMPP?

PHP
1

Hello guys

can you show me a good tutorial, on how to properly setup Zend Framework under XAMPP.

Thank you veyy much in advance.

2

Unzip the the Zend archive to some location, probably in the directory of your application. Then include it…


<?php

require 'path/to/zend/loader.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

Done…

3

@logic_earth thanks but this is my first time of using zend.

actually i already successfully installed XAMMP and it’s running very fine.
and i downloaded and extracted Zend Framework in the c:\zf directory.
i also edited the php.ini like this below,


include_path = ".;C:\\xampp\\php\\PEAR;c:\\zf\\library;c:\\zf\\bin"

i run the xampp and called this code below,


% zf create project quickstart

but unfortunately it doesn’t work.

Now my question is, is my include path is wrong?
Do i need to put the Zend Framework under XAMPP directory?

Where did i made wrong?

Thank you very much in advance.

4

You can put Zend Framework to any directory on your computer. Just add it to include path and it will work (by using set_include_path() or by editing the php.ini). You can use Zend_Loader to to load the classes, or just old-school __auto_load() which will speed up your applications a bit:


function __autoload($class) {
    include str_replace('_', '/', $class) . '.php';
}
5

i run the xampp and called this code below,

Can’t help you with that because I am starting all my ZF projects manually. I have a blank Zend Framework template and I just copy and paste it to a new directory, add a new virtual host and I can start coding.

6

A longer example of set_include_path():



// define BASE_PATH constant
define('BASE_PATH', dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));

// define APPLICATION_PATH constant
define('APPLICATION_PATH', BASE_PATH . '/application');

// set the include path
set_include_path(BASE_PATH
                 . '/../../library'
                 . PATH_SEPARATOR
                 . get_include_path());

// autoload classes from the library
function __autoload($class) {
    include str_replace('_', '/', $class) . '.php';
}

In this case the Zend folder is placed just outside the www directory in a folder called library. So the path to it is:


C:\\wamp\\library\\Zend

Document root is in this folder:


C:\\wamp\\www\\myzfproject

This is the virtual host setup:


NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName myproject
    DocumentRoot "C:\\wamp\\www\\myzfproject"
</VirtualHost>

I believe the above code would work also with XAMPP (it has xampp/www document root if I remember correctly).

7

putting \zf\bin in php.ini isn’t going to help you with the zf command line tool, you’d need to make sure the zf executable is accessible to your shell environment. I don’t use windows but I think it’d be a good idea to google ‘zend tool windows’ for some tips on setting up zend tool for your machine.