qengine/qengine-skeleton

Skeleton Application for ZF2

My Perfect ZF2 Skeleton

Introduction

This is my own ZF2 skeleton application using the ZF2 MVC layer and module systems. Purpose of this is to provide a starting point of building simple, but also complex and enterprise applications. This skeleton comes with Phing build script, that can be used in Continous Integration tools like Jenkins or Travis., _(*1)

QEngine modules

Below are modules, that support building applications and point you to the PHP "best practices". * qengine/qengine-base - very early stage * qengine/qengine-locale, _(*2)

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., _(*3)

Create your new ZF2 project:, _(*4)

composer create-project -n -sdev qengine/qengine-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:, _(*5)

1. Download the tarball, extract it and then install the dependencies with a locally installed Composer:, _(*6)

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

2. Download composer into your proejct directory and install the dependencies:, _(*7)

   curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   php composer.phar install

If you don't have access to curl, then install Composer into your project as per the documentation., _(*8)

Build script

Tu run build script, first you have to install Phing. Then in your project root directory run:, _(*9)

phing 

What this script is doing: * Install composer dependecies * Check for PHP syntax errors in your source files * Run unit tests * Analise project for quality assurance (pdepend, phpmd, phpcpd, phpcs, phpdoc, phploc, phpcb), _(*10)

Web server setup

Docker containers

This skeleton comes with basic script, that is used by docker-compose, to create a local and powerful development infrastructure. By default there is only one container enabled - Apache 2.4, PHP 5.6 (FastCGI), however this script comes with two others: MySQL and Jenkins containers., _(*11)

I assume you are familiar with Docker and have already installed it (and boot2docker for OSX or Windows) together with Docker orchestration tool: docker-compose. Edit script file to meet your requirments (don't forget about data volumes). Add valid entry to your /etc/hosts file (If you're on OSX or Windows, you can retrieve your VM IP by running: shell boot2dock ip) Now you are ready to run:, _(*12)

docker-compose up -d

If you're interested in my other Docker images visit https://hub.docker.com/u/jakubigla/., _(*13)

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:, _(*14)

php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/ public/index.php

This will start the cli-server on port 8080, and bind it to all network interfaces., _(*15)

Note: The built-in CLI server is for development only., _(*16)

Apache setup

To setup apache, setup a virtual host to point to the public/ directory of the project and you should be ready to go! It should look something like below:, _(*17)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName zf2-app.localhost
    DocumentRoot /path/to/zf2-app/public
    <Directory /path/to/zf2-app/public>
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all granted
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Nginx setup

To setup nginx, open your /path/to/nginx/nginx.conf and add an include directive below into http block if it does not already exist:, _(*18)

http {
    # ...
    include sites-enabled/*.conf;
}

Create a virtual host configuration file for your project under /path/to/nginx/sites-enabled/zf2-app.localhost.conf it should look something like below:, _(*19)

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  zf2-app.localhost;
    root         /path/to/zf2-app/public;

    location / {
        index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ @php;
    }

    location @php {
        # Pass the PHP requests to FastCGI server (php-fpm) on 127.0.0.1:9000
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/zf2-app/public/index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Restart the nginx, now you should be ready to go!, _(*20)