Trying to set up i5 with Framework

chris_hird · #1 (**permalink**) 02-17-2007, 06:26 PM

Hi

I am trying to set up the Framework on a System i5 and have a lot of problems?

Here is my directory structure
/www
/website
/Application
/controllers
/views
/models
/htdocs
/images
/scripts
/styles
/library
/Zend
/tmp

I am trying to run a sample project which is described on the IBM site but is using windows as the server.

First problem is being able to set the root directories correctly
when setting the controller directory I have to put the full path in which is /www/website/Application/controllers. I have to do that for all the directory paths as far as I can tell? When setting up the indexView I also have to set the path as /www/website/Application/views. What I would like to do is be able to set the base directory and build up from that? The index.php is sitting in /www/website/htdocs so I tried reference the controllers using ../Application/controllers and it doesnt work? I have also set the paths /www/website/library and /www/website/application in the php.ini file hoping this would allow the refrencing to work but it doesnt?

The next problem was being able to set up the connection to the DB2 database. I get no feedback into the debugger to point me to the problems so I hope someone can help me from here?

Chris...

SpotSec · #2 (**permalink**) 02-17-2007, 06:47 PM

Hi Chris,

Can you post your configuration files? It will help us determine what is wrong with the setup.

SpotSec

chris_hird · #3 (**permalink**) 02-17-2007, 07:17 PM

I am going to rebuild the HTTP server first as I have noticed a couple of strange problems. Once I have cleared these up I will post the configs

Thanks

chris_hird · #4 (**permalink**) 02-18-2007, 02:01 AM

These are what works but I think I can cut out some of the config. I am having problems with zendcore and server status which I have logged with support.

SpotSec · #5 (**permalink**) 02-18-2007, 07:33 PM

everything looks in working order here, but I actually was talking about posting your sections where your have set include paths, controller configs, etc..

What I have done before is setting/determining a global base directory and dynamically setting include paths

chris_hird · #6 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007, 03:05 PM

I have the following set up for the directories

Directory ->Application
contains folders config, controllers,views,models
Directory ->htdocs
contains folders images, scripts, styles
Directory ->library
contains folder Zend (this is the Framework)
Directory tmp
Contains folders cache, sessions, view_compiles

The server is set to serve pages from htdocs. I did not want to have the Application in the htdocs directory so this seemed like a reasonable structure?

I have the UserController.php in the Application/controllers directory and here is a piece of code where I am having to define the whole path to the view

Code:

function registerAction()
	{
		$view = new Zend_View();
		$view->setScriptPath('/www/shieldcrm/application/views');
		echo $view->render('register.php');
	}

This is the same for all of the script paths I have to set. In a tutorial I am reviewing the path is set simply as 'controllers' or 'views' so I can only assume that somewhere there is a basedir value I can set which would state that all requests for these files use the base plus the next level?

Chris...

chris_hird · #7 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007, 03:15 PM

I have set up the php.ini to see the /www/shieldcrm/application in searches. This allows me to include files in the config simply by using config/DB_config.php etc... However I still have to set the scriptpaths etc to the full path ie /www/shieldcrm/application/controllers etc...

How can I set the scriptpaths to be linked to a partial url?

Chris...

DaveA · #8 (**permalink**) 04-30-2007, 07:15 PM

We too are contemplating using Zend Framework on an i5 to access a DB2 database on the i5.

Is this what you are trying to do, and have you had any luck doing it?

My consultant is perplexed because Framework apparently uses "PDO_ODBC" to connect to databases, and according to the IBM RedBook, "PHP: Zend for i5/OS" "PDO_ODBC" is not currently supported with DB2 for i5/OS.

Have you found any workarounds for this?

Thanks, Dave

SpotSec · #9 (**permalink**) 05-02-2007, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_hird

I have set up the php.ini to see the /www/shieldcrm/application in searches. This allows me to include files in the config simply by using config/DB_config.php etc... However I still have to set the scriptpaths etc to the full path ie /www/shieldcrm/application/controllers etc...

How can I set the scriptpaths to be linked to a partial url?

Chris...

Actually now Zend_View will automatically render views from the views folder in a setup described here: Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Zend Framework View Notes

As for setScriptPath(), a relative path I think would start from your controllers directory (so '../views'). You can use get_include_path() as a lazy way for the path of the views or do something similar to this:

PHP Code:


			
$appDir = Zend_Registry::getInstance()->get('applicationDirectory'); 
$this->setScriptPath($appDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $request->getModuleName() . '/Views');

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