A Modular Directory Structure Quickstart: Create Directory Structure

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The following tutorial will consist of creating the following conventional modular directory sturcture and bootstrapping it via Zend_Application 1.8.x.It is broken up over four chapters.

This tutorial assumes one or more of the following:

• You are familiar with PHP
• You know Object Oriented Programming.
• You can setup Apache (mod_rewrite), Virtual Hosts
• You are familiar with a previous version of Zend Framework
• You understand how the typical non-Zend_Application bootstrapping works
• You are familiar with the conventional modular directory structure as per the ZF Documentation
• You are having trouble bootstrapping your modular directory structure with Zend_Application
• You are trying to start a new application using Zend Framework’s Zend_Application component with a modular directory structure
• You are having trouble setting up Zend_Application’s out-of-box Resource Plugins
• You are not using Zend_Tool (bin/zf.sh, bin/zf.bat, bin/zf.php)

(Zend_Tool currently does not fully support modules or modular directory structure, even though it is capable of creating modules, any views, actions or controllers created via Zend_Tool will not be created in the modules, but in application/controllers, views, etc. I would not use Zend_Tool anytime soon.)

If some of the above are true, the please keep reading.

I like to have a certain order of operation.  You can incorporate this into your existing application as well, that is when we discuss the .ini configuration directives.

• Create application Bootstrap
• Create module Bootstraps
• Create controllers, actions, layouts, and view scripts.
• Create config.ini file to setup the following resources:
  • Bootstrap Resource
  • Database Resource
  • Frontcontroller Resouce
  • Layout Resource
  • View Resource
  • Session Resource
  • Autoloader Resource

bootstrap() ->run();