If you think, that you will need the necessary feature to upload large files then there are two ways by which you can enable this feature.

i) Edit the physical file and have the line
ini_set(“memory_limit”,”20M”);

ii) Edit php.ini and add the following line. You need to restart the apache/IIS server once php.ini file is modified.
memory_limit=32M

Below is a slight modification of the default architecture where by you can organize separate model-view-controllers for different projects. Other option is to organize project specific files under modules folder.

|– /sites
|–
`– Bootstrap.php
|– applicationONE
| | |– configs
| | `– application.ini
| |– controllers
| | `– ErrorController.php
| | `– IndexController.php
| |– modules (application specific modules)
| |– models
| `– views
| |– helpers
| `– scripts
| |– error
| |– index
|– library
| |– Zend
| |– Pear (Other libraries)
|– /var/www (public access directory – web root of the server will be set to this directory )
| `– .htaccess
| `– index.php
|– images
|– scripts
|– css

Refer to Zend’s Application Directory Layout for additional information

Zend: OLD Layout Architecture (Deprecated)

Zend: NEW Layout Architecture

At the time of writing it was 1.10.2 available at Zend 1.10.2

$ pwd
/tmp

$ wget http://framework.zend.com/releases/ZendFramework-1.10.2/ZendFramework-1.10.2.tar.gz

$ mkdir /opt/zendframework
$ tar -C /opt/zendframework -zxvf ZendFramework-1.10.2.tar.gz
$ cd /opt/zendframework

Create a symbolic link to the downloaded zend framework release in order to help ease maintaining different releases

$ ln -s ZendFramework-1.10.2.tar.gz currentzend

Edit php.ini to include the path to the symbolic link created for zend release

$ vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

; UNIX: “/path1:/path2″
include_path = “.:/opt/zendframework/currentzend”

In order to do command line execution in zend, we need to set up the PHP CLI by again editing php.ini for the cli

$ vi /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
; UNIX: “/path1:/path2″
include_path = “.:/opt/zendframework/currentzend”

For all users, set the path to Zend’s bin directory
$ vi ~/.bashrc

and add the line
PATH=$PATH:/opt/zendframework/currentzend/bin

Restart apache for the changes to take effect
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To check if the changes take place as expected, type
$ zf.sh show version
and you should get
Zend Framework Version 1.10.2

Now, we move into setting up Zend framework

$ cd /var/www
$ zf.sh create project myzend

This will set up the MVC zend structure. Copy the Zend folder into your new project “myzend”

$ cp -r /opt/zendframework/currentzend/library/Zend /var/www/myzend/library/Zend

Now go to your project to test if the installation was successful by typing
http://localhost/myzend/public/

This should open up the welcome page to zend framework.

BOM stands for Byte Order Mark (also known as ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE) appearing at the beginning of a data stream to define the byte order (whether it is little endian or big endian). BOM is to indicate that the file is Unicode based.

Possible problem caused by Byte Order Mark
In IE6, it will send the dispaly into quirks mode with its presence before “<DOCTYPE …”

How to check the presence of BOM?
View the source code of the page that does not display correctly in a user agent. Or, open the file in the editor which does not support UTF encoding to see the BOM’s signature on the files.

Suggestion
If the user-agent gives problem when you program for multi-lingual websites, check the editor settings to see what format is being used for saving program files. Notepad++ has the option to convert files to UTF and to UTF without BOM. Use the appropriate settings to convert your files.

A character set related tutorial on W3C site can be found here

Byte Order Mark on Wiki

Article on PHP and UTF

My preference is to add the PEAR library to the “vendors” folder and to modify the app_controller to have the PEAR path included through it.

if( file_exists(VENDORS.’Pear’)){
ini_set(‘include_path’, ini_get(‘include_path’) . PATH_SEPARATOR . PEAR);
}

Above solution suggested at CakePHP’s trac

Depending on the library that you want to get included in the programs, add the library to the respective view

App::import(‘vendor’, ‘XML_Feed_Parser’, array(‘file’ => ‘../vendors/pear/XML/Feed/Parser.php’));

To learn more about the PEAR library click here

If you are beginner, the following link will help you tread with the library usage PEAR Manual

Installation instructions clearly walks through the steps for PEAR configuration. There may be cases where you may want to use PEAR libraries for specific projects only in which case you can install PEAR library for that specific purpose. To use it in projects, PEAR path should be set in php.ini settings or should be included in the project configuration’s physical path.

<?php
// PHP 5 how to pass data as a query string
/*
http_build_query is a function in PHP 5 that enables you to URL encode the query string. You can pass an array or an array of array to this function. The default separator is "&"
*/

$data = array("first_name" => "Robert",
                "last_name" => "Brown",
                "address" => "123 Adam St., New York"
            );

// URI formatted with character encoding
$pass_string = "http://localhost/demo.php?".http_build_query($data, '');

echo "<h2>Query URI (using http_build_query)</h2><br />";
echo $pass_string;
?>

Ouput from the above execution:
Query URI (using http_build_query)

http://localhost/demo.php?first_name=Robert&last_name=Brown&address=123+Adam+St.%2C+New+York

In order to test the posted data, we can create a file creation steps to ensure that we receive the posted data via the $_POST array

<?php
/*
  File name: postdata2.php
*/
    $xmlFile = "xmlFile.txt";
    $fh = fopen($xmlFile, 'w') or die("Cannot open file");
    fwrite($fh, $_POST["xmldata"]);
    fclose($fh);

?>

Curl comes in handy during such scenarios. Following program is used to post XML data using Curl. In order for Curl to function, ensure that PHP settings has the curl module installed and that the libraries/dll libeay32, ssleay32 is installed in your server.

<?php
/*
  File name: postdata.php
*/

$post_url = "http://localhost/demo/postdata2.php";
$xml_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<books>
<book isbn="978-1594489587">
    <title>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</title>
    <publisher>Riverhead Hardcover </publisher>
    <amazon_price>14.97 </amazon_price>
    <author_firstname>Junot </author_firstname>
    <author_lastname>Diaz </author_lastname>
  </book>
<book isbn="999-1594489501">
    <title>A Thousand Splendid Suns </title>
    <publisher>Riverhead Hardcover </publisher>
    <amazon_price>14.27 </amazon_price>
    <author_firstname>Khaled </author_firstname>
    <author_lastname>Hosseini </author_lastname>
  </book>
</books>';

$ch = curl_init($post_url);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "xmldata=".$xml_string);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

$data = curl_exec($ch);
// to get information on the curl resultset
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)){
    print curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

?>