How to install Zend Framework on Windows

"installing Zend Framework is so easy!!!!" yeah right...

Ok I'm working with a beginner's book and the ONE thing that is not excessively detailed is the most important part: Installing the darn thing. After browsing the quickstart guide for hours, all it said was:

"download Zend [...] add the include directory (bla bla) and YOU'RE DONE!"

right, i'm done using Zend.

Ok, not really, not yet anyway. I beg of you people, I wanna go to bed, please tell me how (in simple 6th grade detail) to install the framework. I've got the unzipped folder in my htdocs directory, and I placed zf.bat+zf.php in the htdocs root.

What's next?

thank you so much.

php zend-framework

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Gal - I had the same problem. We must be working on the same book this weekend.

I solved the project-creation problem when I figured out that in the terminal window, you need to first navigate to the PHP home directory you created.

So in other words if you are in the PHP5 folder, type "zf create project c:/Apache/htdocs/projectname"

I had the same issue re: missing php.exe file until I figured this out.

That's the good news. The bad news is you're going to have similar problems when you try setting up Controllers and Actions, and my fix won't work for this. I still haven't figured this out, so I'll post again with more info and perhaps the others can help.

answered 2009-12-07T00:39:19.607

How to install Zend Framework on Windows

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