How to install Zend Framework 2 Tool with composer

Question

I can't figure out how to run zf.php (Zend Framework 2 Tool) when bootstrapped with composer.

First I bootstrap composer and zftool according to the documentation:

$ mkdir tmp && cd tmp
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ ./composer.phar require zendframework/zftool:dev-master

This works fine so far.

But when I try to run zf.php, I get errors:

$ vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php 
PHP Warning:  require_once(/Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php on line 13

Warning: require_once(/Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php on line 13
PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required '/Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/local/lib/php') in /Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php on line 13

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/local/lib/php') in /Users/seb/tmp/vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php on line 13

What am I doing wrong? I'm using PHP 5.3.21 on Mac.

I also tested it on my Debian VServer with PHP 5.4, same error :(

Answer 1

You should copy zf.php into your root directory and run it from there.

$ mkdir tmp && cd tmp
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ ./composer.phar require zendframework/zftool:dev-master
$ cp vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf.php .
$ php zf.php

Answer 2

Install Composer.phar locally

If you do not have the composer globally installed on your machine, you can install it locally in the project.

Installing Composer locally is a matter of just running the installer in your project directory (https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md).

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Note: If the above fails for some reason, you can download the installer with php instead:

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

Install ZF2

git clone git://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git --recursive
cd ZendSkeletonApplication
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install

Install ZFTools (Installation using Composer)

php composer.phar require zendframework/zftool:dev-master
php composer.phar install

Create a symbolic link

zf.php (Zend Tool) will be installed in the vendor/bin folder. You may run it with php vendor/bin/zf.php.

ln -s vendor/zendframework/zftool/zf2.bat zftools
chmod +x zftools
./zftools

In this case, I prefer symbolic link, for updating the zftools repository, I do not need to copy the file again.

Without installation, using the PHAR file

Another alternative to using the ZF tools, without creating scripts or aliases, and download the PHAR format.

wget https://packages.zendframework.com/zftool.phar --no-check-certificate
php zftool.phar  version
ZFTool - Zend Framework 2 command line Tool
The ZFTool is using Zend Framework 2.2.4

Or you can download zftool.phar and use it.

Note 1:The @akond response is very good, I'm just presenting an alternative answer I like to use.

Note 2: This example was done on a windows machine using cygwin.

Good tutorial installation (ZF2 and ZF3)

Getting started: A skeleton application

Ref:

Zend Framework Tool (ZFTool)