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Deploying Applications to Zend Server

Zend Studio allows you to create a new PHP project from an existing SVNSVN (Apache Subversion) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed under an open source license. project. In this tutorial you will be provided with an existing SVN project.

Tutorial Content

In this tutorial you will learn:

To create an API Key. The API Key allows Zend Studio to access your server.
To create a new PHP project from SVN in Zend Studio. You will be provided with an existing SVN account and project.
To deploy your project on a remote Zend Server.
To launch your application. After creating your application, Zend Studio enables you to run your application from within the IDE and in an internal browser.

Prerequisites

Download Zend ServerZend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security. 5.5 or above from the Zend Server Downloads page . For more information see the Zend Server Installation Guide.
For this tutorial your server can be an:

Accessible remote Zend server.
Local Zend Server (In this tutorial, if you are using a local server it will be accessed as a remote server).

Download Zend Studio 9.0 or above from the Zend Studio Downloads page. For more information see the Zend Studio Installation Guide.
For Windows 7 users- Full write permissions for the ‘C:\Program Files(x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs’ directory. For more information on the Windows 7 UAC, see http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4291.

Step 2: Creating a New Project from SVN

Creating a new project from SVN in Zend Studio allows you to import an existing SVN project into your IDE.

For this tutorial you will use a provided SVN project.

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To create a new project from SVN:

Open Zend Studio.
Go to File | New | PHP Project from SVN.
If the SVN plugin is not installed, Zend Studio will automatically begin the process for installing the plugin that will include restarting the program. Wait until this installation is complete before continuing. See Customizing and Registering Zend Studio for more information.

Enter the following information:

Project Name- Name your project “NewProject”
Location- The project location for this tutorial is ‘C:\Program Files(x86)\Zend\Apache2\htdocs’
URL- Enter the following URL: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/php-memory/code/php-memory/trunk/
User Name- In this tutorial, leave this field empty.
Password- In this tutorial, leave this field empty.

Click Next to move to the Launch Settings dialog.

Select Launch with Zend Application Deployment and click the Zend Server icon
The TargetDeploying an application is the process of copying, configuring and enabling a specific application to a specific base URL on a target of your choice.Once the deployment process has finished, the application becomes publicly accessible on the base URL.The target carries out this two step process by first staging the application, and then activating it after successful staging. Details dialog is displayed.

Enter the server Host Name (address), Key Name and Key Secret and click Test Connection.
If no problems arise, click Finish.
The Launch Settings dialog is displayed again with the new target defined.

Click Finish.
Your application is created and displayed in the main view and PHP ExplorerThe PHP Explorer is an internal file system browser, allowing you to view all PHP projects and files in your Workspace.. By default, the deployment.xmlAfter enabling deployment on your application, Zend-Studio creates a deployment.xml file that is displayed in the PHP Explorer view. This file is used to customize and define your deployment and to package the application. file is opened and displayed.