Zend Framework 2 and 3 Installation Using Composer On Linux Machine

Step 1 -> Make sure composer is installed on your system. If not then     you can use this command to install composer (curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer )

If you want to install curl then you can use this command( sudo apt-get install curl) 

Step 2 -> Use below command to install Zf2 skeleton application on your local machine.You can put your desire version like  ^2.4. If you will not use version number then it will download latest version of zend framework.

Command :  composer create-project zendframework/skeleton-application path to install ^2.4

Example : If you want to install skeleton application under the htdocs directory then you can use like

composer create-project zendframework/skeleton-application opt/lampp/htdocs/zf2 ^2.4 

Stpe 3 -> After successfully installation you will get directory structure  like 

application_root/
    config/
        application.config.php
        autoload/
            global.php
            local.php
            // etc.
    data/
    module/
    vendor/
    public/
        .htaccess
        index.php
    init_autoloader.php