Tutorial: Getting started with Zend Framework 2 (beta)

Screen short of Zend Framework 2 tutorial

This tutorial is intended to give an introduction to using Zend Framework 2 to write a simple database driven application.

This tutorial only works on the current development code for Zend Framework 2.

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English version: Download the PDF (v0.2.7).

Code

The associated code is available from github.

Further reading

The Quick Start is worth reading, as is the manual.

Changelog

0.2.7 (19/Feb/2012)
Fix raising of exception as found by Bart McLeod
0.2.6 (18/Feb/2012)
Another typo fix found by Solow from #zftalk.2.
0.2.5 (4/Feb/2012)
Another typo fix found by Petro Boychuk.
0.2.4 (7/Jan/2012)
Another typo fix found by RWOverdijk from #zftalk.2.
0.2.3 (23/Dec/2011)
Yet more typo fixes found by RWOverdijk and MikeA from #zftalk.2.
0.2.2 (22/Dec/2011)
Even more typo fixes found by Evil_Otto from #zftalk.2.
0.2.1 (21/Dec/2011)
Typo fixes found by Evil_Otto from #zftalk.2.
0.2.0 (20/Dec/2011)
Update to support ZF2 beta 2.
0.1.5 (30/Nov/2011)
Update to support the new parameter order in the url() view helper.
0.1.4 (20/Nov/2011)
Update to support latest changes to ZF2's ModuleManager.
0.1.3 (6/Nov/2011)
Typos fixed as reported by mtvic and Christoffer Holmstedt.
0.1.2 (23/Oct/2011)
Typos fixed as reported by sandersjj.
0.1.1 (20/Oct/2011)
Typos fixed as reported by Richard Kellner.
0.1 (18/Oct/2011)
Initial release. Only works with ZF2 beta 1.

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