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To install the latest version of the Zend Framework we first need to add the repository containing the resources:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zend-framework/ppa
sudo apt-get update

After this installing is as simple as running the following command:

sudo apt-get install zend-framework

To check if the installation was successful run this command:

zf show version

In my case it shows: Zend Framework Version: 1.10.3

This is a follow up for the last post about installing PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu. After playing around with PHP for some time I wanted to be able to do some debugging. It turns out to be easy to install Xdebug.

Install Xdebug
Just us the Synaptic Package Manager and search for php5-xdebug. Because we added the PHP 5.3 repository in the previous post the latest version of Xdebug is available in the list. Mark it for installation and the click the Apply button. If al goes well xdebug is installed.

Use the Synaptic Package Manager to install the following packages:

• apache2
• php5
• mysql-server
• php5-mysql

If you check the PHP version you will see it is 5.2 and not 5.3. To get 5.3 up and running we first need to install two libraries the are needed during the update. On my system (64 bit) these are installed with the following commands:

wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/krb5/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu38_3.8-6ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libicu38_3.8-6ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb

I found a nice way to run Ubuntu on a Windows system without having to mess with boot loaders etc. It is called Wubi.

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!

Installing it was easy. But after the reboot it was showing me the grub prompt and refusing to do anything else than telling me it would not run Ubuntu. This seems to be a problem with Grub2. Here you can find a fix for the problem that worked for me. Now Ubuntu is booting fine and all is working ok.

At work we do both .net and php. The frontend is using PHP and MySql, the backend ASP.NET and Oracle. My knowledge of PHP is minimal so I decided to start learning it more seriously.

To do this I started with creating a virtual machine running ubuntu linux. Installing PHP, Apache and MySql was easy. After that installed the following things:

• NetBeans 6.8
• PHPUnit
• XDebug
• ZendFramework

I’m now working through the ZendFramework documentation to see if this is a good framework to start with.

It took me some time but I finally feel at home with PHP and Linux.