Question

I want to put projecct dependent custom class in zend folder structure. I googled and found that we can put it in models folder, but we use models folder for database related classes. So I am confuse. Please help where can i put it so i can access it by directory mapping?

Answer 1

This is my way:

I create in library path, folder ‘My’.
There I put file Utils.php.

So in Utils.php I have class

class My_Utils { /* some functions... */ }

in configs/application.ini autoload namespace ‘My’ with this line:

autoloaderNamespaces.my = "My_"

So in controller you can use that class like

$utils = new My_Utils();
$utils->someFunction();

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Other way, you can autoload that folder(My) in bootstrap

protected function _initAutoLoad() {
// Add autoloader empty namespace
$autoLoader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
$resourceLoader = new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource(
        array(
            'basePath'      => APPLICATION_PATH,
            'namespace'     => '',
            'resourceTypes' => array(
            'model'         => array(
                    'path'      => '../library/My/',
                    'namespace' => 'My_'
                ),
            ),
        )
);
return $resourceLoader;
}