Where do you place all your files for Zend Framework?

I completed the quickstart tutorial, but I feel really unclear on a few things. I started the guide initially expecting everything to be on my remote server, but it actually seems to be a guide for a local setup. I have everything on my server, and I have the hosts file on my local computer routing to the server, for ex. this is the entry in my hosts file server-ip quickstart.local.

1) Currently, I have everything beneath public_html. Where should I put all the开发者_高级运维 Zend files (bin, demos, incubator, etc..)? www/public_html/[zend-files],www/public_html/quickstart/

2) Where do I put the quickstart (project) folder? Am I supposed to create an index.php that routes to the public folder in the project folder? At the moment, it is at public_html/quickstart/.

I feel silly and embarrassed for asking, because I feel like this is something really obvious.

Actually, you'll need only the Zend folder, which is the library itself.

On the public_html you need to put only the files located in the public folder of your project.

Folders like application and library should stay out of public_html.

For example

/home/my_project/public_html (public folder from zend)

/home/my_project/private (the other files, like application and library)

Instead of put the Zend library inside your project library folder, you can put it on the php include_path.

The second option, maybe the best, is to configure your virtual hosts and set the public folder (application public folder) as the root folder for your domain quickstart-local

So, you will end up with /home/my_project/public as your root folder and /home/my_project/application as your private folder.

You'll need to setup your index.php and application.ini with the appropriated paths.

As soon as you work with more than one framework version at a time, using symlinks becomes a good option. It is also much better for development than using the include path because you automatically have code assist for ZF code. We organize our projects as follows:

/application
/httpdocs
/library
    /Project
    /Zend (->symlink to the Zend folder of the needed version)
    /ZendX (->dito)
/tests

And now, if you're about to say that 'symlinks' don't work on Windows, don't say it. It's utter rubish. It works perfectly well.