Question

I have been trying to follow this tutorial: Tutorial

I can’t get past page 2. When I try to run the command:

php composer.phar create-project --repository-url="http://packages.zendframework.com" C:\wamp\www\zendTutorial 

I get these messages:

[RuntimeException]...[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]<br>
The "http://packages.zendframework.com/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

I enabled ssl_module in the Apache modules and php_openssl in PHP extensions and a runtime error window popped up which I didn’t read because I thought I would restart the server and everything would be okay.

Then I found out I had to create a private/public key pair so I followed this tutorial: tutorial

But I realized I skipped the step where I have to download WSAS (the 3rd application to download just to get this pig to oink) to export my pk from the keystore and I decided to put on the brakes and ask “really?” Is there a shortcut I can take to bypass all this crap so I can start with the tutorial? I’ve been at this for the past 3 hours and I am so fed up – it’s demoralizing.

Answer 1

Note Another way to install the ZendSkeletonApplication is to use github. Go to https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication …

Try it this way. Get git and clone the repository from

https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git

To do this, change in console (cmd.exe) to your workspace and type

git clone https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git

It should create a subfolder ZendSkeletonApplication with the skeleton application inside.

Later when you have your skeleton application project you can run composer as described in the tutorial to get the dependencies.