Contributing to Zend Framework 1

Read the license

Zend Framework is licensed under the New BSD License. It can be found here.

Sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

To contribute source code or documentation at any level (from a few lines, to a patch, to a proposal, to an entirely new component), you must first sign the Contributor License Agreement.

Report, work on, and resolve issues in the issue tracker

The issue tracker is the place to submit issues. The issue tracker is also the place to track the release roadmap.

Submit a pull request to fix an issue. Reference the issue number in the PR.

Learn PHPUnit

Zend Framework development is backed by extensive unit testing. We use PHPUnit extensively as our testing framework. For code to be accepted, it must be tested and covered by a unit test.

Developers are expected to keep documentation and unit tests in sync with changes to code.

Review the coding standards

All framework code is covered by the conding standard. Learn it, love it, live it.