Zend Framework 2 - Database connection - php

Question

Trying to wrap my head around the new concepts of Zend Framework 2.0.
I'm trying to connect to a database, and to get that connection in a controller or model.
Nothing fancy, just the pure connection to run queries against.
So this is my current code:
//module.config.php
return array(
'db' => array(
'driver' => 'Pdo',
'dsn' => 'mysql:dbname=DBNAME;host=HOSTNAME,
'driver_options' => array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\''
),
'username' => 'USERNAME',
'password' => 'PASSWORD',
),
'service_manager' => array(
'factories' => array(
'translator' => 'Zend\I18n\Translator\TranslatorServiceFactory',
'Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter' => 'Zend\Db\Adapter\AdapterServiceFactory',
),
),
);
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Create db.local.php in your ./config/autoload folder and add the following content
return array(
'db' => array(
'driver' => 'Pdo',
'dsn' => 'mysql:dbname=zenBlog;host=localhost',
'username' =>'root',
'password' =>'',
'driver_options' => array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\''
),
),
'service_manager' => array(
'aliases' => array(
'db' => 'Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter',
),
),);
in your controller $this->getServiceLocator()->get('db'); to access to database.

Answer 2

This is how my local.php in config\autoload\local.php looks like.
<?php
return array(
'db' => array(
'driver' => 'Pdo',
'dsn' => 'mysql:dbname=<dbname>;host=localhost',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => <your password here>,
'driver_options' => array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES \'UTF8\''
),
),
'service_manager' => array(
'aliases' => array(
'adapter' => 'Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter',
),
),);
Now use this to create a database adapter:
$adapter = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('adapter');
Create a sql statetment and put in variable $sql.
Now do this:
$statement = $adapter->createStatement($sql);
$result = $statement->execute();
Hope this helps.