Introduction to Zend framework Boilerplate

Zend Framework Boilerplate All-in-one platform for development of enterprise grade PHP applications.

In a Nutshell

• Zend Framework Boilerplate is an all-in-one platform for development of enterprise grade PHP applications based on the Zend Framework.

• ZF-Boilerplate supports teams generate high-quality code and rapidly deliver customer value with PHP and ZF.

• Starting point for your next application.

In Detail

• Collection of integrated well-known PHP libraries such as Zend Framework, Doctrine 2, …

• Collection of well-known Development Tools such as PHPUnit, DocBlox, PHP Depend, DocBook, …

• Virtual Machine Appliance for Application Development

• ZF-Boilerplate Code Library

The Multi Legged Beast …

About Me

• Michael Romer

• Dipl. Inf. (FH)

• Berlin, Germany

• 6+ years of experience in Web Industry as Lead Developer, CTO, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Manager (eBay, erento.com, …)

• ZF-Boilerplate Initiator & Developer

Back in the days …

• Set up project‘s basic files & folder structure

• Pull in libraries for ORM, DI, etc. and make them work together.

• Write tons of clue code to get basics such as DB fixtures, Unit Testing environment, translations, Search, etc. in place.

• Create scripts for checking code style, DB schema generation, etc.

Back in the days …

• Install all tools and applications on local box: PHP, Apache, PEAR, Pecl, Ant, ElasticSearch, Java, Memcached, …

• How long does that take for your own box? A day? A week?

• How long does that take for your development team? And what about changes?

• Ease development of Enterprise grade PHP applications.

• Ease development in teams.

• Deliver customer value fast.

• Ensure high code quality.

Goals

• ZF-Boilerplate is an application blueprint and the starting point for your very own application.

• Doctrine 2 ORM and more included and pre-configured.

• Includes Unit Test Suite, I18N features, …

• Takes away lot of set-up work.

Application blueprint

• ZF Boilerplate uses Vagrant and Chef to provision a base VM image.

• On a local box you only install Virtual Box, Ruby, Vagrant and Git.

Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine

• Virtual Box is a virtualization product from Sun that allows to run a Virtual Machine on a host box.

• ZF-Boilerplate creates a VM for development.

• „Production-like“ environment.

Virtual Box

• Chef is a tool written in Ruby that lets you programatically install applications on a (virtual) box based on so called cookbooks and recipies.

• ZF-Boilerplates ships with all cookbooks to develop enterprise grad PHP applications in a VM environment.

Chef

• Vagrant is a tool written in Ruby that allows you to interact with Virtual Box and Chef in a very seamless way.

• Do vagrant up after cloning / downloading ZF-Boilerplate to create your VM.

• Open http://localhost:8080

Vagrant

• Download

– http://zf-boilerplate.com/downloads/

– https://github.com/michael-romer/zf-boilerplate

• Documentation

– http://zf-boilerplate.com/documentation/

ZF-Boilerplate: Getting Started!

• Assetic

• Skipfish Security Scanner

• ZF-Initializr

• Zend Framework 2

• …

Roadmap

http://zf-boilerplate.com/ All-in-one platform for development of enterprise grade PHP applications.