Question

I am trying to create a Modular structure to zend framework project, what i am trying to do is create a module which will look something like this

docroot/
    index.php
application/
    default/
        controllers/
            IndexController.php
            FooController.php
        models/
        views/
            scripts/
                index/
                foo/
            helpers/
            filters/
    blog/
        controllers/
            IndexController.php
        models/
        views/
            scripts/
                index/
            helpers/
            filters/
    news/
        controllers/
            IndexController.php
            ListController.php
        models/
        views/
            scripts/
                index/
                list/
            helpers/
            filters/

what i cant understand after reading the documentation is where to add the following code or should i refactore the /zendlibrary/Controller/front.php ?

$front->setControllerDirectory(array(
    'default' => '/path/to/application/controllers',
    'blog'    => '/path/to/application/blog/controllers'
));

OR

$front->addControllerDirectory('/path/to/application/news/controllers',
                               'news');

Answer 1

Adding a method to your bootstrap is probably the easiest way:

protected function _initFrontController()
{
    $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
    $front->setControllerDirectory(array(
        'default' => APPLICATION_PATH.'/default/controllers',
        'blog'    => APPLICATION_PATH.'/blog/controllers'
    ));

    return $front;
}