I've finally found a solution. Jurian's hints to using the actual application have put me on the right track! :)
1 - /zendframework/config/application.config.php.
Everything is default, just make sure the module is added. I commented the 'application' module as I don't see any use for it (as of now). I also had to change the path to the config files from './module'
to __DIR__ . '../module'
as it was looking in the wrong directory (took me a while to find that one).
<?php
return array(
// ...
'modules' => array(
'ProductImage', /* ProductImage module */
// 'Application',
),
// ...
'module_listener_options' => array(
'module_paths' => array(
__DIR__ . '/../module',
__DIR__ . '/../vendor',
),
2 - configuration
make sure the modules are configured right, and also that ZF2 Path is set up correctly. In my case, run through the quick start on RTD (http://zf2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/installation.html). I had the ZF2_PATH
exception and change the httpd.conf
via WHM.
3 - Read more on RTD
In particular on how you can bootstrap the application: http://zf2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/modules/zend.mvc.intro.html#zend-mvc-intro
Which after very little debugging produced me the following code to access a neatly configured $sm instance.
//wherever the ZF2 application skeleton is, include the autoloader
require_once '/home/path/to/the/ZF2/application/directory/init_autoloader.php';
use Zend\Loader\AutoloaderFactory;
use Zend\Mvc\Application;
use Zend\Mvc\Service\ServiceManagerConfig;
use Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager;
// setup autoloader
AutoloaderFactory::factory();
// get application stack configuration
$configuration = include '/home/path/to/the/ZF2/application/directory/config/application.config.php';
//var_export($configuration);
// The init() method does something very similar with the previous example.
$app = Application::init($configuration);
$sm = $app->getServiceManager();
$pi = $sm->get('ProductImage\Service\ProductImageService');
var_export($pi);
die();
I do not like the fact that the configuration needs to be specified in addition to the init_autoloader path. I avoid this implementation from being copied and pasted all over the place, I am considering integrating the $sm
instantiation into the init_autoloader.php
in the future so that the path of the configuration file does not have to be specified whenever a ProductImage
service needs to be invoked.