Zend Framework Tool (ZFTool)

ZFTool is a utility module for maintaining modular Zend Framework 2 applications. It runs from the command line and can be installed as ZF2 module or as PHAR (see below). This tool gives you the ability to:

• create a ZF2 project, installing a skeleton application;
• create a new module inside an existing ZF2 application;
• get the list of all the modules installed inside an application;
• get the configuration file of a ZF2 application;
• install the ZF2 library choosing a specific version.

To install the ZFTool you can use one of the following methods or you can just download the PHAR package and use it.

Installation using Composer

1. Open console (command prompt)
2. Go to your application’s directory
3. Run composer require zendframework/zftool:dev-master

Manual installation

1. Clone using git or download zipball
2. Extract to vendor/ZFTool in your ZF2 application
3. Enter the vendor/ZFTool folder and execute zf.php as reported below.

Without installation, using the PHAR file

1. You don’t need to install ZFTool if you want just use it as a shell command. You can download zftool.phar and use it.

Usage

In the following usage examples, the zf.php command can be replaced with zftool.phar.

Basic information

> zf.php modules [list]           show loaded modules

The modules option gives you the list of all the modules installed in a ZF2 application.

> zf.php version | --version      display current Zend Framework version

The version option gives you the version number of ZFTool and, if executed from the root folder of a ZF2 application, the version number of the Zend Framework library used by the application.

Project creation

> zf.php create project <path>

<path>              The path of the project to be created

This command installs the ZendSkeletonApplication in the specified path.

Module creation

> zf.php create module <name> [<path>]

<name>              The name of the module to be created
<path>              The path to the root folder of the ZF2 application (optional)

This command can be used to create a new module inside an existing ZF2 application. If the path is not provided the ZFTool try to create a new module in the local directory (only if the local folder contains a ZF2 application).

Classmap generator

> zf.php classmap generate <directory> <classmap file> [--append|-a] [--overwrite|-w]

<directory>         The directory to scan for PHP classes (use "." to use current directory)
<classmap file>     File name for generated class map file  or - for standard output. If not supplied, defaults to
                    autoload_classmap.php inside <directory>.
--append | -a       Append to classmap file if it exists
--overwrite | -w    Whether or not to overwrite existing classmap file

ZF library installation

> zf.php install zf <path> [<version>]

<path>              The directory where to install the ZF2 library
<version>           The version to install, if not specified uses the last available

This command install the specified version of the ZF2 library in a path. If the version is omitted it will be used the last stable available. Using this command you can install all the tag version specified in the ZF2 github repository (the name used for the version is obtained removing the ‘release-‘ string from the tag name; for instance, the tag ‘release-2.0.0’ is equivalent to the version number 2.0.0).

Compile the PHAR file

You can create a .phar file containing the ZFTool project. In order to compile ZFTool in a .phar file you need to execute the following command:

> bin/create-phar

This command will create a zftool.phar file in the bin folder. You can use and ship only this file to execute all the ZFTool functionalities. After the zftool.phar creation, we suggest to add the folder bin of ZFTool in your PATH environment. In this way you can execute the zftool.phar script wherever you are.