Installing Zend Framework in Fedora

1. Install Needed Web and Database Servers

1.1 Install Install Apache (httpd) and PHP 5.3 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

Install Apache (httpd) and PHP 5.3 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

This is minimum requirement, but you also might need Database server, like MySQL, check 1.2. Or you might need whole LAMP stack check 1.3.

1.2 Install MySQL 5.1 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

Install MySQL 5.1 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

1.3 Install the whole LAMP environment with following guide

LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) on Fedora, CentOS Red Hat (RHEL)

2. Install Zend Framework 1.11.3 on Fedora 14/13, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 5.5

2.1 Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2.2 Install Remi repository

Fedora

## Remi Dependency on Fedora
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm 
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 
## Fedora 13 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-13.rpm
 
## Fedora 12 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-12.rpm
 
## Fedora 11 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-11.rpm
 
## Fedora 10 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-10.rpm
 
## Fedora 9 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-9.rpm
 
## Fedora 8 ##
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/remi-release-8.rpm

CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)

## Remi Dependency on CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
 
rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

2.3 Install Zend Framework 1.11.3

Minimal setup

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-ZendFramework

Install Zend Framework Full setup

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-ZendFramework* --exclude php-ZendFramework-Db-Adapter-Oracle

Note:Zend Framework Oracle DB Adapter is excluded, because it needs Oracle dependencies that will not work without extra tweaking.

Custom setup

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-ZendFramework \ 
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Memcached php-ZendFramework-Db-Adapter-Mysqli \ 
php-ZendFramework-Dojo php-ZendFramework-Feed \ php-ZendFramework-Gdata \ 
php-ZendFramework-Pdf php-ZendFramework-Search-Lucene \ 
php-ZendFramework-Services php-ZendFramework-Soap php-ZendFramework-demos \ 
php-ZendFramework-extras php-ZendFramework-tests

Pick all needed components from following:

php-ZendFramework: Leading open-source PHP framework
php-ZendFramework-Auth-Adapter-Ldap: Zend Framework LDAP Authentication Adapter
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Apc: Zend Framework APC cache backend
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Memcached: Zend Framework memcache cache backend
php-ZendFramework-Cache-Backend-Sqlite: Zend Framework sqlite back end
php-ZendFramework-Captcha: Zend Framework CAPTCHA component
php-ZendFramework-Db-Adapter-Firebird: Zend Framework database adapter for InterBase
php-ZendFramework-Db-Adapter-Mysqli: Zend Framework database adapter for mysqli
php-ZendFramework-Db-Adapter-Oracle: Zend Framework database adapter for Oracle
php-ZendFramework-Dojo: Zend Framework Dojo Toolkit integration component
php-ZendFramework-Feed: Live syndication feeds helper
php-ZendFramework-Gdata: Google Data APIs
php-ZendFramework-Ldap: Basic LDAP operations API
php-ZendFramework-Pdf: PDF file handling helper
php-ZendFramework-Search-Lucene: Apache Lucene engine PHP port
php-ZendFramework-Services: Web service APIs for a number of providers
php-ZendFramework-Soap: SOAP web services server part helper
php-ZendFramework-demos: Demos for the Zend Framework
php-ZendFramework-extras: Zend Framework Extras (ZendX)
php-ZendFramework-tests: Unit tests for the Zend Framework

3. Create New Zend test-project and Test That The Zend Framework is Working

3.1 Check zf command functionality and Zend Framework version

zf show version
Zend Framework Version: 1.11.3

3.2 Create new zend project

## Change to web directory ##
cd /var/www/html
 
## Create new Zend Framework project using zf command ##
zf create project test-project
Creating project at /var/www/html/test-project
Note: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/README

3.3 Create Link (symlink) / Copy Zend directory to your project directory

## Change directory to /var/www/html/test-project/library ##
cd test-project/library
## OR ##
cd /var/www/html/test-project/library
 
## Symlink Zend Framework on library path ##
ln -s /usr/share/php/Zend .
 
## OR ##
 
## Copy Zend Framework on library path ##
cp -R /usr/share/php/Zend .

Note: If you use symlink method then Zend Framework is updated automatically all your projects with yum update.

3.4 Check test-project directory content

Should look like following (check also library/Zend):

test-project
|-- application
|   |-- Bootstrap.php
|   |-- configs
|   |   `-- application.ini
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- ErrorController.php
|   |   `-- IndexController.php
|   |-- models
|   `-- views
|       |-- helpers
|       `-- scripts
|           |-- error
|           |   `-- error.phtml
|           `-- index
|               `-- index.phtml
|-- docs
|   `-- README.txt
|-- library
|   `-- Zend -> /usr/share/php/Zend
|-- public
|   `-- index.php
`-- tests
    |-- application
    |   `-- bootstrap.php
    |-- library
    |   `-- bootstrap.php
    `-- phpunit.xml
 
16 directories, 11 files

3.5 Check index page on browser

Open following url http://localhost/test-project/public/ on your browser.