Isolated development environment for programming with Zend Framework 2(ZF2). Designed especially for the "Learn ZF2" book (http://learnzf2.com) but can be used also for other ZF2 projects.

Prerequisites

You need to have the latest versions of Vagrant and VirtualBox installed and configured.

Usage

To create or power the dev box run:

vagrant up

This will create a new virtual machine that is run by VirtualBox. This is your new dev box.

To enter the dev box run

vagrant ssh

Source Code

The source code is in a shared folder named dev and can be accessed and modified both from inside the virtual machine and from your physical machine. Inside the virtual machine the code is located under ~/dev/learnzf2. Outside the virtual machine the code is in a sub-folder called dev, which is one level below the folder where the Vagrantfile is located.

Web Access

In order to access the virtual machine web server from the host machine you have to type

http://localhost:8080/

That should lead you to the example ZF2 application.

For more information about available users take a look at the Learn ZF2 code repository.

PHP7

The upcoming PHP7 looks quite promising and if you want to test your Zend Framework 2 application with it you should create a new virtual machine using the following commands:

(Optional). If you want to run on a clean box it is highly recommended to run this command. It destroys your existing dev box but the source code stored under the dev folder and any changes to it are kept.

vagrant destroy

To create or power the dev box with PHP7 run:

PHP=7 vagrant up

Since PHP7 is still under heavy development you may want to have the latest updates. To get them run the following command:

PHP=7 vagrant provision