#portsnap fetch
#portsnap extract
#portsnap update
#cd /usr/ports/devel/pear
#make
#make install

#pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
#pear install symfony/YAML

#pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
#pear install phpunit/PHPUnit

#pear config-get php_dir

The last line will show you the directory where PHPUnit was installed. Add it to your include path and you are ready to go:

First, you need to install PHP. Download it from here and install it with default settings. On Windows 7 default installation path should be:

C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3

Second, install IIS 7. That’s too easy so I won’t give you step by step instructions.

Third, we need to set handler mappings for PHP in IIS manager. Click on Start, type IIS and open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager:

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

In IIS Manager click on Handler Mappings:

Click on Handler Mappings in IIS manager

Click on Add Module Mapping. In Request Path field type “*.php”, choose “FastCgiModule” as Module and type path to your php-cgi.exe file into Executable (Optional) field, in my case “C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3\php-cgi.exe”. Type “PHP_via_FastCGI” into Name field. Click on OK. The handler mapping should look like this:

PHP Handler Mapping

Next, we need to tell IIS manager to treat index.php files as default opening points for PHP websites. Open command line and execute this command:

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config ^ -section:system.webServer/defaultDocument /+"files.[value='index.php']" ^ /commit:apphost

Add index.php as default file to IIS 7

You should have PHP installed and configured correctly in IIS 7 now. As a checkpoint, create a new website with different port than the default one (e.g. 81), add index.php file with some simple echo statement to its root directory and open it in a web browser.

Create a new website and test your configuration with simple index.php

In the case of the image above, the URI of that website would be http://localhost:82/. Open it in your web browser. If everything works fine, we can move on.

Create your usual directory structure for Zend Framework in the root of your newly created website. The only thing left is rewriting URIs. Since IIS 7 does not support .htaccess files we are all used to from Apache environments, you will need to install the URL Rewrite module for IIS.

You can use my Zend blank project to create a quick basic structure for Zend Framework project with already configured index.php and bootstrap files. Just download the zipped file and unzip its contents inside the root directory of your newly created website. In case of this tutorial that would be C:\inetpub\test_website. The only thing you need to edit is the include path in index.php, so it will point to your Zend Framework library folder.

Create a file named web.config in the public directory of your Zend Framework project and put this XML code there:

Create web.config file in public directory and put rewrite rules in it

Open your website in the browser and it it should work correctly. In case you used my Zend blank project you should see a page like this:

Hurray! You got Zend Framework working like charm under IIS 7

Final tip. You might have noticed that IIS 7 by default does not show you any PHP application errors. As a developer surely you need to see the errors so you can fix them. Just open your php.ini file, find display_errors directive and set it to On:

Set display_errors directive in php.ini to On

A little bonus, if you need to load archived PDF documents (as I needed to recently) and merge them, you can use ZipArchive:

Hope somebody finds it useful

If you are developing on a Windows PC you might want to use the native Windows web server IIS7 to run PHP. I do it that way. Since IIS neither accepts nor understands .htaccess files you will have to use a different approach to set up a Zend Framework project.

You will need to install the URL Rewrite module for IIS. Then just create a file called web.config in the public directory and put the following XML inside:

Instead of manually creating the file you can also use the IIS Manager and import the rewrite rules through its interface.

Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for '1.0/no DST' instead in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\zend\library\Zend\Log.php on line 308

The solution is simple. I f you have access to your php.ini configuration file, just look for a line starting with:

date.timezone =

And put your timezone there, for example I used:

date.timezone = "Europe/Paris"

If you cannot edit the php.ini file, use this inside your PHP script:

Hope some of you will find it useful.

imagettfbbox() [function.imagettfbbox]: Could not find/open font

The solution is to use neither relative nor absolute path to the font but to use a path like this:

$font = './arial.ttf';

Hope somebody will find it useful.

This plugin will serve HTML 4.01 Strict as text/html to IE and XHTML 1.0 Strict as application/xhtml+xml to other browsers.

The only thing you need to do is to register the plugin to the front controller during bootstrapping:

And it will take care of content negotiation. The plugin will also set a boolean view variable $view->xhtmlAllowed so you can use different markups in layouts and views if needed (<img> in HTML and <img /> in XHTML).