Zend Framework 2 : ZFTool – Zend Framework 2 Module to Ease Development

ZFTool is an 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.
It currently can show installed modules, create a new module, or create a project.
1. Installation
Open your composer.json in your skeleton application :

{
    "name": "zendframework/skeleton-application",
    "description": "Skeleton Application for ZF2",
    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
    "keywords": [
        "framework",
        "zf2"
    ],
    "homepage": "http://framework.zend.com/",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.3",
        "zendframework/zendframework": "2.*",
        "zendframework/zftool": "dev-master"
    }
}

and add “zendframework/zftool”: “dev-master” in require, and run :

php composer.phar self-update && php composer.phar update 

OR, you can remove above step by run the following :

composer require zendframework/zftool:dev-master

and You will see process like this :

and your downloaded ZFTool show in your vendor folder.
Last step for installation, edit your config/application.config.php and add ZFTool to modules array.

2. Using ZFTool
a. Getting started : Show list commands
Type :

php public/index.php

and you will see the following list :

b. show modules
Type :

php public/index.php modules

and you will see like the following :

c. create module
Type :

//testmodule is name of module we want to create
php public/index.php create module testmodule

and if success, you will see like the following :

d. create a project
Type :

//new_prj is name of project we want to create
php public/index.php create project ../new_prj

and if success, you will see like the following :

References :
https://github.com/zendframework/ZFTool

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