Getting started with Zend Framework 2 (beta)

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

This tutorial works on RC1 for Zend Framework 2. It should work on later versions, but it will not work on earlier versions.

English version: Download the PDF (v0.6.0).

Code

The associated code is available from github.

Further reading

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

Changelog

0.6.0 (25/July/2012)

Updated for RC1.

0.5.5 (13/July/2012)

Update AlbumForm constructor. Patch by Kat Reeve.

0.5.4 (11/July/2012)

Use ZendDbAdapterAdapterServiceFactory and also rename the album-table service to AlbumModelAlbumTable. Also fixed a minor typo reported by Christoffer Holmstedt.

0.5.3 (10/July/2012)

escape is now escapeHtml(). Reported by Zsolt Kunsagi & Adrien Moiaurd.

0.5.2 (9/July/2012)

Fix configuration of controller as reported by Abdul Ikhsan.

0.5.1 (9/July/2012)

Use the params controller plugin as noted by Michael Gallego.

0.5.0 (9/July/2012)

Updated for Beta 5

0.4.3 (9/June/2012)

Fixed setting of text on the submit button. Reported by Francis Drouillard, Zoltan Nagy & others

0.4.2 (30/May/2012)

Typo fixes! Found by Francis Drouillard & Martin Meredith

0.4.1 (30/May/2012)

Typo fixes! Found by Francis Drouillard & Chris O’Connell

0.4.0 (25/May/2012)

Significantly updated to match Beta 4. Expect typos!

0.3.6 (03/Apr/2012)

Fixes to issues found found by Zachary Burnham.

0.3.5 (30/Mar/2012)

Add class to table as reported by many people.

0.3.4 (20/Mar/2012)

Typo fixes reported by Rob Keplin

0.3.3 (11/Mar/2012)

Typo fixes reported by Dorthe Luebbert

0.3.2 (5/Mar/2012)

Added missing namespace as reported by many people!

0.3.1 (3/Mar/2012)

Bug fix.

0.3.0 (3/Mar/2012)

Update for ZF2 beta 3

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.