Getting Started with Zend Framework MVC applications

Getting Started with Zend Framework MVC applications

This tutorial was intended to give an introduction to using Zend Framework 2 by creating a simple database driven Applicati On using the Model-view-controller paradigm. By the end you'll have a working ZF2 application and you can then poke around the code to find out more about what it all Works and fits together.

Some Assumptions

This tutorial assumes is running at least PHP 5.6 with the Apache Web server and MySQL, accessible via the PDO E XTension. Your Apache installation must has the mod_rewrite extension installed and configured.

You must also ensure this Apache is configured to the support .htaccess files. This is usually do by changing the setting:

AllowOverride None

To

AllowOverride FileInfo

In your httpd.conf file. Check with your distribution ' s documentation for exact details. You are not being able to navigate-to-page other than the home page in this tutorial if you had not configured an mod_rewrite D .htaccess usage correctly.

Getting started faster

Alternatively, you can use any of the following as well:

• The built-in Web server in PHP. Run in php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/ public/index.php your application root-to-start a Web server listening on port 8080.
• Use the shipped Vagrantfile , by executing from the vagrant up application root. This binds the host machine's port 8080 to the Apache server instance running on the Vagrant image.
• Use the shipped Docker-compose integration, by executing from the docker-compose up -d --build application root. This binds the host machine's port 8080 to the Apache server instance running container.

The tutorial Application

The application that we were going to build was a simple inventory system to display which albums we own. The main page would list our collection and allow us to add, edit and delete CDs. We is going to need four pages in our website:

Page	Description
List of albums	This would display the list of albums and provide links to edit and delete them. Also, a link to enable adding new albums would be provided.
ADD new Album	This page would provide a form for adding a new album.
Edit Album	This page would provide a form for editing an album.
Delete Album	This page would confirm that we want to delete a album and then delete it.

We'll also need to store We have data into a database. We'll only need one table with these fields in it:

Field name	Type	Null?	Notes
Id	Integer	No	Primary Key, Auto-increment
Artist	varchar (100)	No
Title	varchar (100)	No

Getting Started with Zend Framework MVC applications