The easiest way to install ZF3 on IBM i is to use a Composer. This can be done from a command line in PASE.

Command ===> CALL QP2TERM

Once in PASE first let add some path to our session to make PHP visible to us:

$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/zendphp7/bin

$ LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:/usr/local/zendphp7/bin

$ export PATH

$ export LIBPATH

or you can make the changes permanent:

$ echo "export PATH=/usr/local/zendphp7/bin/:$PATH" >> ~/.profile

$ echo "export LIBPATH=/usr/local/zendphp7/bin/:$LIBPATH" >> ~/.profile

If you don’t have Composer installed you can do it now:

$ php -r "readfile('http://getcomposer.org/installer');" > composer-setup.php

$ php composer-setup.php

Now we can copy Composer to PHP library

$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/zendphp7/bin

and to clean after the install:

$ rm composer-setup.php

This installation can be ran also using PHP script; there is a nice example on GitHub from Ben Kuhl.

With Composer’s on-board we can signal the framework and the skeleton app:

$ composer.phar create-project -n -sdev zendframework/skeleton-application path/to/install

That’s it! Now you can navigate your browser to your installation directory and the Zend Framework home page should appear on your screen.

References:

MVC Skeleton Application Installation using Composer

Troubleshooting:

Increase memory in PASE:

$ export LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0xB0000000@DSA