Question

Anyone know how to change the default Module in Zend Framework 2? I am using the Skeleton Application as the home page but I want to make another module that I have the default home page.
I tried two things

I removed the “Skeleton Application” from the application.config.php file this is what it looked like

return array(
'modules' => array(
    'Application',
    'Helloworld'
),
'module_listener_options' => array(
    'config_glob_paths'    => array(
        'config/autoload/{,*.}{global,local}.php',
    ),
    'module_paths' => array(
        './module',
        './vendor',
    ),
  ),
);

this is what it looks like now

    return array(
'modules' => array(
    'Helloworld'
),
'module_listener_options' => array(
    'config_glob_paths'    => array(
        'config/autoload/{,*.}{global,local}.php',
    ),
    'module_paths' => array(
        './module',
        './vendor',
     ),
   ),
);

if you can’t tell I removed the ‘Application’ from the module
then I changed my module.config.php file for the Helloworld module
here’s what it used to look like

return array(
'view_manager' => array(
    'template_path_stack' => array(
        __DIR__ . '/../view',
    ),
),
'router' => array(
    'routes' => array(
        'sayhello' => array(
            'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Literal',
            'options' => array(
                'route' => '/sayhello',
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'Helloworld\Controller\Index',
                    'action' => 'index',
                )
            )
        )
    )
),
'controllers' => array(
    'factories' => array(
        'Helloworld\Controller\Index' => 'Helloworld\Controller\IndexControllerFactory'
    )
),
'service_manager' => array(
    'invokables' => array(
        'greetingService' => 'Helloworld\Service\GreetingService'
     )
   )
);

this is what it looks like now

return array(
'view_manager' => array(
    'template_path_stack' => array(
        __DIR__ . '/../view',
    ),
),
'router' => array(
    'routes' => array(
        'sayhello' => array(
            'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Literal',
            'options' => array(
                'route' => '/',
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'Helloworld\Controller\Index',
                    'action' => 'index',
                )
            )
        )
    )
),
'controllers' => array(
    'factories' => array(
        'Helloworld\Controller\Index' => 'Helloworld\Controller\IndexControllerFactory'
    )
),
'service_manager' => array(
    'invokables' => array(
        'greetingService' => 'Helloworld\Service\GreetingService'
      )
   )
);

the change was made to the ‘router’ array in the options=>route I changed the value to just ‘/’

but it throws a 5000 error
can anyone elaborate on what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

OK so I saw the problem with my application. The routing is actually correct the problem was that I was missing a layout.phtml file I needed to specify all this in the module configuration. I need to add the following to my module.config.php

    'view_manager' => array(
    'display_not_found_reason' => true,
    'display_exceptions'       => true,
    'doctype'                  => 'HTML5',
    'not_found_template'       => 'error/404',
    'exception_template'       => 'error/index',
    'template_map' => array(
        'layout/layout'           => __DIR__ . '/../view/layout/layout.phtml',
        'valaree/index/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/valaree/index/index.phtml',
        'error/404'               => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/404.phtml',
        'error/index'             => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/index.phtml',
    ),
    'template_path_stack' => array(
        __DIR__ . '/../view',
    ),
)