ZF 2-for-1

Version 0.0.1 Created by Evan Coury

Introduction

ZF 2-for-1 provides a compatibility layer for Zend Framework 1, allowing you to use Zend Framework 2 features in your ZF1 application. For example, if you want to upgrade from the old Zend_From to ZF2's Zend\Form, but can't afford to refactor your entire application for ZF2, this is for you. This works by registering a Zend_Application resource, thus it requires Zend Framework 1.8 or later. At the moment it's only been tested with 1.12.1.

Enjoy responsibly.

Current features

Registers the ZF2 autoloader
Bootstraps ZF2 configuration and modules
Makes available the ZF2 view helpers in the ZF1 view layer ($this->zf2->get('formRow'))

Installation

This process should be simplified, but for now here's how you can get it working:

Clone this repository.
Copy the src/Zf2for1 directory into your application's library/ directory.
Copy the zf2/ directory into your application's APPLICATION_PATH (usually ./application/).
Download ZF2 and put the Zend/ directory in APPLICATION_PATH/zf2/vendor

Add this to your application.config.php:

autoloaderNamespaces[]       = "Zf2for1_"
pluginPaths.Zf2for1_Resource = "Zf2for1/Resource"
resources.zf2.zf2Path        = APPLICATION_PATH "/zf2/vendor"
resources.zf2.configPath     = APPLICATION_PATH "/zf2/config"
resources.view[] =

You can of course change the paths to your liking.

Plans

There are a lot of ways this could be improved.

Better README / installation instructions and improved installation process (plus compatibility with composer)
The view helper implementation should be set up to handle __invoke() properly
We could attach to the route event and actually dispatch ZF2 if the request isn't for ZF1
We could create a ZF1 controller plugin for the service manager, possibly.
Whatever else you might think of.

I accept pull requests. :)

License

ZF 2-for-1 is released under the New BSD license. See the included LICENSE file.