Zend Framework 2: Uncaught Exception - Module can't be initialized

Question

I'm new to using ZF2, and running into an issue getting the first project I need to work on set up locally. I've gone through and set up the application locally, but when I try to access the home page I receive the following exception error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend\ModuleManager\Exception\RuntimeException' with message 'Module (Application) could not be initialized.' in /var/www/myproject/vendor/ZF2/library/Zend/ModuleManager/ModuleManager.php on line 140

Zend\ModuleManager\Exception\RuntimeException: Module (Application) could not be initialized. in /var/www/myproject/vendor/ZF2/library/Zend/ModuleManager/ModuleManager.php on line 140

There is also some output being echoed from a Call Stack trace.. not sure if it will be helpful in resolving this:

getApplication()->getEventManager(); $moduleRouteListener = new ModuleRouteListener(); $moduleRouteListener->attach($eventManager); $this->initDatabase($e); } public function initDatabase($e) { Feature\GlobalAdapterFeature::setStaticAdapter($e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter')); } public function getConfig() { return include __DIR__ . '/config/module.config.php'; } public function getServiceConfig() { return array( 'factories' => array( 'dbadapter' => new Zfe\Factory('db'), ), ); } public function getAutoloaderConfig() { return array( 'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array( 'namespaces' => array( __NAMESPACE__ => __DIR__ . '/src/' . __NAMESPACE__, ), ), ); } } 

An image with the full stack trace and errors:

There was a very similar question already posted about this topic: Zend Framework 2 tutorial: Module (Application) could not be initialized .

Reading through that posting I followed the suggested answers recommendations of setting an absolute path for module_paths within application.config.php, however this did not affect my problem.

application.config.php excerpt:

'module_paths' => array(
        __DIR__.'/../module',
        './vendor',
    ),

<?
namespace Application;

use Zend\Db\TableGateway\Feature;
use Zend\Mvc\ModuleRouteListener;
use Zend\Mvc\MvcEvent;
use Zend\ModuleManager\Feature\ServiceProviderInterface;

use Model;
use Zfe;

class Module implements  ServiceProviderInterface { 
public function onBootstrap(MvcEvent $e) {
    $eventManager = $e->getApplication()->getEventManager();
    $moduleRouteListener = new ModuleRouteListener();
    $moduleRouteListener->attach($eventManager);
    $this->initDatabase($e);
}        

public function initDatabase($e) {        
    Feature\GlobalAdapterFeature::setStaticAdapter($e->getApplication()->getServiceManager()->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter'));
}

public function getConfig() {
    return include __DIR__ . '/config/module.config.php';
}

public function getServiceConfig() {
    return array(
            'factories' => array(
                    'dbadapter'    => new Zfe\Factory('db'),
            ),
    );
}

public function getAutoloaderConfig() {
    return array(
        'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array(
            'namespaces' => array(
                __NAMESPACE__ => __DIR__ . '/src/' . __NAMESPACE__,
            ),
        ),
    );
}
}

Any insight as to where I could look to start debugging this would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

As per my comment, the error indicates ZF couldn't find the module class. In this case it is because a short open tag is being used (<? instead of <?php). PHP code being output is generally a good indicator of this.