Zend Framework Introduction

by Michelangelo van Dam

Who is Michelangelo van Dam ?

Freelance PHP consultant with over 7 years of enterprise level PHP development experience.

Started using Zend Framework in 2007 and contributes to this framework for Zend_Ldap.

web: http://www.in2it.be

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What is Zend Framework ?

a component based framework

use the whole framework

pick what you need, drop the rest

implementing the MVC-paradigm

simplicity and object oriented best practices

corporate friendly license (new BSD license)

a very tested agile code base

modify code by extending components

Zend Framework map

Tools to build ZF applications

IDE's

Zend Studio 6.0 (neon) (www.zend.com)

fully supported by Zend

integration of Zend Framework in IDE

Komodo IDE (www.activestate.com)

Text editors

vi(m)

textpad

notepad

A bit of theory... MVC

model

the model holds the business logic

view

creates the presentation layer

controller

defines actions to be executed

MVC in action

Setting up the virtualhost (Apache)

ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com DocumentRoot /path/to/example.com/htdocs Options Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all DirectoryIndex index.php SetEnv ENVPHP localhost ErrorLog /path/to/logs/example.com-error_log CustomLog /path/to/logs/example.com-access_log common

Directory structure

app/ default/

New Zend Framework Project

Hello, world!

controller IndexController.php

';?>

modifying index/index.phtml

Hello, world!

modifying IndexController.php