Question

I have a few constants that I’ll need to define for my application, for example, SITE_KEY which would contain a random key for salt passwords.

I’m not sure where I should define those, though. I thought of placing them in public/index.php but that seems a bit messy. Is there a specific place where they should go, according to Zend or something?

Thanks

EDIT

I’m trying to do it this way:
In my application.ini I have this:

siteglobal.sitekey = "test"

and in my bootstrap.php file:

protected function _initGlobals()
{
$config = $this->getOptions();
define('SITE_KEY', $config['siteglobal']['sitekey']);

}

Still, this isn’t working, when I try to echo SITE_KEY in my controller like this:

echo SITE_KEY;

It doesn’t show anything. Any ideas?

Answer 1

In my application, I’m combining both Haim’s and Yeroon’s approaches. I’m storing application constants in my application.ini, then parsing them in the Bootstrap and putting them into Zend_Registry.

So, in the application.ini

constants.site_key = my_site_key

In the Bootstrap

protected function _initConstants()
{
    $registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
    $registry->constants = new Zend_Config( $this->getApplication()->getOption('constants') );
}

Then I can access these constants from any place in the application (model, controller, etc.)

Zend_Registry::getInstance()->constants->site_key