Question

I started out with models in a module called Api, using the following
classname/filename conventions:

filename:  {project}/application/modules/api/models/Account.php
classname: Api_Model_Account

They were happily autoloading through the framework as expected.

I decided that some of these models would be better off,
organisationally speaking, in the application’s models directory as they
could be used across multiple modules.

I moved them and renamed them:

filename:  {project}/application/models/Account.php
classname: Application_Model_Account

However, they are not autoloading – PHP throws a class not found. I have checked and confirmed my
configuration ({project}/application/configs/application.ini):

[production]
appnamespace = "Application"

So, the application namespace is ‘Application’, but the models in the
application/models directory are not being autoloaded.

Just to make things that little bit crazier – the plugins in application/plugins are being autoloaded.

Testing:

<?php

class Application_Model_ExampleTest extends AMH_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase
{
    public function testLoad()
    {
        $moduleModel = new Api_Model_Product();
        $plugin = new Application_Plugin_ModuleErrorControllerSelector();
        $applicationModel = new Application_Model_Example();
    }
}

class AMH_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase extends Zend_Test_PHPUnit_ControllerTestCase
{
    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->bootstrap = new Zend_Application(
            APPLICATION_ENV,
            APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
        );

        parent::setUp();
    }

    public function tearDown()
    {
        $this->resetRequest();
        $this->resetResponse();

        parent::tearDown();
    }
}

Configuration:

[production]
appnamespace = "Application"

bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"

includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"

phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
phpSettings.date.timezone = "Australia/Adelaide"


resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"
resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 0
resources.modules[] = ""

[staging : production]

[testing : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1

[development : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 1

Relevant folder paths:

<project name>/
    application/
        models/
            Example.php
        modules/
            api/
                models/
                    Product.php
        plugins/
            ModuleErrorControllerSelector.php

Error message:

PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Application_Model_Example' not found in /var/www/accounts.amh.localhost/tests/application/models/ExampleTest.php on line 9

This is using Zend Framework 1.10 (package for Ubuntu 10.04)

Answer 1

This method needs to be in all tests to ensure the environment is properly bootstrapped:

public function setUp()
{
    $this->bootstrap = new Zend_Application(
        APPLICATION_ENV,
        APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
    );

    parent::setUp();
}