Karl Katzke

While we’re waiting for me to recover from my vacation over the weekend… Decorators with Zend Form - Matthew has posted what he hopes will be the definitive Zend Form & Zend Form Decorators tutorial.

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Over the next few days, I’ll be covering how to set up your first Zend Framework application using PHP and MySQL.

First, some requirements. You should be comfortable on the command line or with your Subversion client. I’m writing from the point of view of someone who codes on a Linux or Mac machine using vim. You will need to have PHP 5 installed on your server — this will not work unless you do. Second, I would recommend getting a VPS from a host like Futurehosting — for $20/mo, you get root access to your own machine, you can host as many sites or servers and have as many domain names as you want, and you get 350gb a month in transfer — I don’t think I’ve used 1gb of transfer ever, and I do a ton of work with the server. I also Also, we’re going to assume you have access to a Subversion server. That’s just good practice, folks. Subversion hosts are very cheap — I usually use CVSDude.

Today we’re going to cover the folder structure, getting things into subversion, and locating the different files. Tuesday, we’ll cover the bootstrap and getting your index module and error module to show up. Wednesday, we’ll cover Zend_Db_Table_Abstract, Thursday we’ll cover Zend_Form, and Friday we’ll put it all together to get a user registration and login working.

Disclaimer: I’m by no means a whiz kid with Zend Framework. ZF is unique among frameworks in that it gives you a toolset but does not enforce any conventions. The conventions I’m giving here are *my* conventions and may have nothing to do with the way you want to code.

Let’s dive right in.

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