ZF2 Doctrine Skeleton

Introduction

This is a simple, skeleton application using the ZF2 MVC layer and module systems. This application is meant to be used as a starting place for those looking to get their feet wet with ZF2. The Doctrine ORM Module has been added and can easily be configured to use a SQLite database. Your project is set up in just a few minutes!

Installation

Installation using Composer

The easiest way to create a new ZF2 project is to use Composer. If you don't have it already installed, then please install as per the documentation.

Create your new ZF2 project:

composer create-project -n -sdev driehle/zf2-doctrine-skeleton path/to/install

Installation using a tarball with a local Composer

If you don't have composer installed globally then another way to create a new ZF2 project is to download the tarball and install it:

1. Download the tarball, extract it and then install the dependencies with a locally installed Composer:

    cd my/project/dir
    curl -#L https://github.com/driehle/zf2-doctrine-skeleton/tarball/master | tar xz --strip-components=1
   

2. Use the composer.phar contained in the project to install the dependencies:

    php composer.phar self-update
    php composer.phar install
   

If you don't have access to curl, then install Composer into your project as per the documentation.

Configuration

Before you start, you need to tell Doctrine which database to use. You can simply do so by copying the file config/autoload/doctrine.local.php.dist to config/autoload/doctrine.local.php. Open that file, you will see sample configurations for both MySQL and SQLite. Simply enable one of them by commenting out the other one and you're ready to start.

Web server setup

PHP CLI server

The simplest way to get started if you are using PHP 5.4 or above is to start the internal PHP cli-server in the root directory:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t public/ public/index.php

This will start the cli-server on port 8080, and bind it the loop-back address, so the server will be available only from your machine. Simply point your browser to http://localhost:8080.

Note: The built-in CLI server is for development only.

Vagrant server

This project supports a basic Vagrant configuration with an inline shell provisioner to run the Skeleton Application in a VirtualBox.

1. Run vagrant up command

   vagrant up

2. Visit http://localhost:8085 in your browser

Look in Vagrantfile for configuration details.