ZendSkeletonApplication

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 template for building ZF2 applications.

Where does this differ from standard Zend Skeleton Application?

Something we have been missing on std ZF2 Skeleton App is native application handling. We detect application running environment at runtime, so to speed up development and deployment. This application takes current environment into account and handles the following accordingly, through configuration files:

1. Error reporting settings
2. Error handling settings
3. PHP ini settings
4. Fatal errors graceful degradation
5. Custom module loading (IE developer toolbar on dev environment only)

Not only it's now easy to load development modules depending on currrent environment, or setting different php.ini params at application startup, but it's also possible to use different views on error pages, depending on current context. This is b/c we think that end users do not care about seeing exception details (and would be much less frustrated if looking at a full screen funny image), whereas we want developers to see cleanest error for quicker handling of such occurrencies.

Additionally environment name is also passed to the view component, so to allow for quick view customization (IE through CSS) depending on current running environment.

Installation

Using Composer (recommended)

The recommended way to get a working copy of this project is to clone the repository and use composer to install dependencies using the create-project command:

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php --
php composer.phar create-project -sdev --repository-url="http://packages.mvlabs.it" mvlabs/zf2-skeleton-application path/to/install

Alternately, clone the repository and manually invoke composer using the shipped composer.phar:

cd my/project/dir
git clone git://github.com/mvlabs/MvlabsZendSkeletonApplication.git
cd MvlabsZendSkeletonApplication
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install

(The self-update directive is to ensure you have an up-to-date composer.phar available.)

Another alternative for downloading the project is to grab it via curl, and then pass it to tar:

cd my/project/dir
curl -#L https://github.com/mvlabs/MvlabsZendSkeletonApplication/tarball/master | tar xz --strip-components=1

You would then invoke composer to install dependencies per the previous example.

Using Git submodules

Alternatively, you can install using native git submodules:

git clone git://github.com/mvlabs/MvlabsZendSkeletonApplication.git --recursive

Virtual Host

Afterwards, set up a virtual host to point to the public/ directory of the project and you should be ready to go!