Question

I can’t understand some strange thing.
I have folder structure:

application/
  controllers/
  forms/
  models/
  views/

I added Service folder to ‘models’ folder and create file in it:

models/
  Service/
    User.php

models/Service/User.php:

<?php

  class Model_Service_User {}

In IndexController (for testing):

....
$test = new Model_Service_User; // It's works
....

But I don’t understand why if I add ‘Mapper’ folder as ‘Service’ one, it is not working..

models/
  Mapper/
    User.php

models/Mapper/User.php:

<?php

  class Model_Mapper_User {}

And in IndexController:

....
$test = new Model_Mapper_User; // Fatal error: Class 'Model_Mapper_User' not found
....

I try to create another folders like ‘Map’, ‘Maps’ and so, they are working ok. But what is wrong with Mapper??

Answer 1

This is because there is a resource autoloader definition for Model_Mapper already defined in Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader.

The autoloader looks for these class files in /models/mappers.

If you want to remove this mapping, in your Bootstrap class, try this…

protected function _initResourceAutoloader()
{
    $autoloader = $this->getResourceLoader();
    $autoloader->removeResourceType('mappers');
}

… or you could just put your mappers in models/mappers.