Well, the best way to get started with Zend Skeleton Application is:
$cd my/project/dir
$git clone git://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git --recursive
$cd ZendSkeletonApplication
In your project root you will find two files: composer.json and composer.phar. You can get more information about composer from the official Getting Started.
The composer.json file describes the project's dependencies:
{
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.3",
"zendframework/zendframework": "~2.4"
}
}
In order to get the dependencies you need to execute from you project root:
$composer.phar self-update
$composer.phar update
Finally, you can start the internal PHP cli-server in the root directory:
$php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public/ public/index.php
I hope this will help you to install and configure your app.