Install ZEND Framework 2 on Your WAMP and XAMPP Server

I am a php web application developer; I am working on WAMP Server. I found some difficulties to setup Zend Framework 2.x in my localhost. You may found some difficulties in installing the zend framework 2.x like me, that’s why I have written this article, hope you will found find this article helpful.

1. Download ZF2 skeleton app from GitHub https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication as a  .zip  format

2. Extract your ZendSkeletonApplication-master.zip file to your  www directory and Rename the folder as your project name. In my localhost, it’s zf2crud.

3. Go to C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5 or if you use xampp just go to C:\xampp\php and copies the folder path.

4. Right-click on My Computer inside your start-menu and click Properties,

5. Click Advanced tab inside System Properties.

   6. Click “Environment Variables” Button and Select “Path” inside your “System variables” Sections. A new window will pop up once again

7. In the lower of the two boxes search for the variable Path and double-click it

8.  Leave everything as is and just EXTEND the variable by ” ;C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.5” or “;C:\xampp\php” (of course adjust your xampp/wamp directory)

9. Enable your php_openssl Module From your php.ini File

10. Hit ok, ok, ok, start a new CLI (!) and once again check what php -v returns. It should work now.

11. Go to your CLI , change the directory to the project directory. Write command “cd C:\wamp\www\zf2crud” or if you use xampp “cd C:\xampp\htdocs\zf2crud” and press enter

12. Now run “php composer.phar self-update” in your CLI

13. After Completing php composer.phar self update now run “php composer.phar install”

This will take a while to download and generate autoload files.

In that mean time, setup the virtual host. assuming that virtual host is zf2crud.localhost

14. Assuming that I’m going to setup a host named zf2crud.localhost and my host files are in C:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public

1. Click WAMP icon on quick launch then Apache -> httpd.conf to open apache config file.

2. Go to bottom of the file and add following host settings.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName zf2crud.localhost
DocumentRoot C:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory C:\wamp\www\zf2crud\public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

• And also add this if you already do not have this, this will give access to the localhost as usual

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName localhost

DocumentRoot C:\wamp\www

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"

<Directory C:\wamp\www>

DirectoryIndex index.php

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

For xampp settings Go to your xampp control panel click Config and open Apache (httpd.conf)

13. Open the windows host file. in my case, C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and place

127.0.0.1 zf2crud.localhost

Finally go http://zf2crud.localhost/ to run your zend framework 2 demo

goodgood verygood 🙂

Install ZEND Framework 2 on Your WAMP and XAMPP Server

Masud Alam

Hi, My name is Masud Alam, love to work with Open Source Technologies, living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I’m a Certified Engineer on ZEND PHP 5.3, I served my first five years a number of leadership positions at Winux Soft Ltd, SSL Wireless Ltd, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), World Vision, Care Bangladesh, Helen Keller, US AID and MAX Group where I worked on ERP software and web development., but now i’m a founder and CEO of TechBeeo Software Company Ltd. I’m also a Course Instructor of ZCPE PHP 7 Certification and professional web development course at w3programmers Training Institute – a leading Training Institute in the country.