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Zend Framework  is one of the most powerful  framework for PHP, it has lots of built in component and its very useful to develop large scale complex web  application.

I will show how to install Zend Application Framework on Ubuntu. I hope you have already installed php, apache in you Ubuntu box.

1. Download the latest version of Zend Framework from the zend  site
2. Save the Framework source on your www directory and extract it. I have extracted it in /var/www/ directory

         3.Now set the suitable permission to the directory. So type in the following commands to Shell

4. Now enable the Zend framework tool or the zf tool. zf is a command line tool to create project and perform others operation for zend application. To enable the zf tool, we have to create a symlink to the tool. Copy and run the command to your shell

This will create a symlink to /usr/bin/

5. Next we will enable the Library path to the php.ini. So to do that we will open the file in a vim editor. So for that we will again go to the terminal and type the following,As we are using Ubuntu so php.ini will be in “/etc/php5/apache2/”.

I am using vim editor here to edit the php.ini file, you can use whatever tool you like

There search for include_path. You will see an area that says,

;include_path = “.:/usr/share/php”;

include_path = “.:/usr/share/php :/var/www/ZendFramework-1.11.12/library”

Uncomment the include_path line and add your Zend Framework library path. Save the file and exit.

6. Restart the apache with bellow command in shell

7. Now we are ready to create project. In the shell run the bellow command

This command will create a project in /var/www/ directory with a name zend_learn

8. Now open your browser and type http://localhost/zend_learn/public/

You should see the bellow output in the browser

You are ready to code in Zend Framework