ZF2 Tutorial With Doctrine2

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 & Doctrine2.

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:

cd my/project/dir
git clone git://github.com/dollyaswin/zf2-tutorial.git
cd zf2-tutorial
php composer.phar install

Using Git submodules

Alternatively, you can install using native git submodules:

git clone git://github.com/dollyaswin/zf2-tutorial.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!

Local Configuration

Zend Framework 2’s ModuleManager merges all the configuration from each module’s module.config.php file and then merges in the files in config/autoload (*.global.php and then *.local.php files). We’ll add our database configuration information to global.php which you should commit to your version control system. You can use local.php (outside of git) to store the credentials for your database if you want to So, just copy local.php.dist to local.php, then change the return value to this:

return array(
    'doctrine' => array(
        'connection' => array(
            'orm_default' => array(
                'driverClass' => 'Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOMySql\Driver',
                'params' => array(
                    'host'     => 'YOUR HOST HERE',
                    'port'     => 'YOUR PORT HERE',
                    'user'     => 'YOUR USERNAME HERE',
                    'password' => 'YOUR PASSWORD HERE',
                    'dbname'   => 'YOUR DATABASE HERE',
                )
            )
        )
    )
);

Database

We are going to use MySQL, via PHP’s PDO driver, so create a database, and use data/db/album.sql to create the album table with some data in it.