Integrate Zend_Tool with Netbeans 6.9 beta
I’ve recently read a lot about Zend Framework (Zend_Tool) integration with Netbeans. Today I decided to download the Netbeans 6.9 beta and setup everything on my local development machine (OS X).
Here is how I did it on OS X with XAMPP.
First, I included Zend Framework library via a PEAR repository hosted on Google Code.
sudo pear channel-discover zend.googlecode.com/svn sudo pear install zend/zend
Completing the above will make Zend Framework available through PEAR, which should be in your PHP include_path.
Next, I downloaded and extracted the minimal Zend Framework package. Then I did
cd ~/Downloads/ZendFramework-1.10.3-minimal/bin sudo cp zf.php /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/zf.php sudo cp zf.sh /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/zf
After this, I can run zf from command line without having any errors. So … I did this
zf --setup storage-directory zf --setup config-file
I can now download the latest Netbeans 6.9 beta and do the normal install. After installation, start up Netbeans, go to “Netbeans” -> “Preferences” from the menu bar. Navigate to the “PHP” -> “Zend” section. Enter “/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/zf” into the “Zend script” input box. Then click on “Register Provider” button.
Now Netbeans should have updated the zf config file, which I created by running the “zf –setup config-file” command. And at this stage, I can create Zend Framework based projects and run “zf” commands to manipulate my projects within Netbeans.
However, if I jump back to the terminal shell, I would notice the good old “zf” command is broken and complaining it cannot find a file called “NetBeansCommandsProvider.php”. Since I still want my terminal command line zf script working, I did this
sudo ln -s /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans\ 6.9\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/php/zend/NetBeansCommandsProvider.php /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear/NetBeansCommandsProvider.php
Now I am happy. Hope someone find it’s useful
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