Starting With Zend Framework

Lets first start with installing Zend framework on our system, and later we will start off with the complete tutorials for the beginners. I myself belong to java programming and learning Zend these days as a part of my project requirement. For these tutorials, I am assuming that you are aware of PHP and connectivity of My SQL with it. For those who feel they are not so well versed in PHP, I suggest them to learn PHP first; I will be publishing another post for PHP, which may help them in practicing PHP Skills. Being open source is the beauty of such frameworks no purchasing of software, can be downloaded freely on internet. For installing Zend u need the following stuff, 1. PHP, APACHE, MYSQL you can download these separately or you can have a cross-platform web server solution package like XAMPP / WAMP SERVER in which you get PHP, APACHE, MYSQL.I have XAMP Installed in my system. You can download XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/download.html , WAMP SERVER: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ . Once you are done check if you have installed it properly by hitting into localhost in your browser. 2. Next Step is downloading the Framework, There are two Frameworks Framework 1 and Framework 2 in Zend ,for beginners I suggest to download minimal package of framework 1: http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest

3. Download the zip file and extract it anywhere on your system. This is it, we are done with installation, in next tutorial we will go through the framework basics and steps involved in getting started with a sample project.