Question

If there is an easy to follow instruction or tutorial that I can use to learn how to install Zend on my machine that has a WAMP installation?

The video listed
http://www.zendcasts.com/getting-started-with-zend-and-wamp-server/2009/06/

is hard to read what he is writing.

Thank you

Answer 1

Conceptually, the whole thing is:

1. Create virtual host pointing it to the sample app

2. Make sure that PHP include_path contains the path to the Zend library.

But the specifics can be tricky if you are not accustomed to it. So here is at least a little bit more color.

1. Create a folder for your app, something like C:\apps\myapp.

2. Copy a sample ZF app – like this or this – into that space so that the myapp folder has the typical subfolders like application, library, public, tests, etc.

3. create a virtual host within your Apache. This is a two step process:

   3.1 Modify your hosts file – on my WinXP machine, it resides in the folder C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc to contain a line like

   127.0.0.1 myvirtualapp

   I am intentionally choosing a virtual host name myvirtualapp that is different from the app folder name myapp to demonstrate that they are conceptually different creatures. One is a name that the OS and Apache recognize as an HTTP host; the other is a local filesystem path.

   3.2 Add an entry into Apache’s vhost file – typically in the Apache folder hierarchy at something like conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. A minimal entry there will look something like this:

   <VirtualHost *:80>

   DocumentRoot “C:/apps/myapp/public”

   ServerName myvirtualapp

   </VirtualHost>

4. Restart Apache.

5. Make sure that the Zend library is copied into your c:\apps\myapp\library folder, so that there is a subfolder named Zend with the rest of the library contained inside.

6. Make sure that the folder c:\apps\myapp\library is on your PHP include path. There are many ways to do this, but typically this is done in c:\apps\myapp\public\index.php. Usually, that library folder is referenced in index.php as realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library').

7. Browse to the url: http://myvirtualapp/

With any luck, you should see the app!