Introduction:In this first chapter we will try to get up and runningasfast as possible by showing how to set up and configure your web server, and how a basic Zend Framework application is constructed, whichwillstand usingoodsteadfor the following chapters. This book is conceived as a hands-on guide, exploring actual code and technical de- tails where possible, so if you are interested in tinkering and playing around with the code accompanying this book, you will need a working environment similar to the one described. If you already have some real life Zend Framework development experience, you will be able to skim over this chapter very quickly. If not, read it carefully and make sure you have everything working as it should before moving on. Do not expect anything ground-breaking here. This book will get to real life exam- ples as quickly as possible, and we’ll keep this chapter short and clean.
