Question

I’am dabbling with the Zend framework and I have got a few things working, but some other things seem to be more of a chore to get working.

Right now I have edited my php.ini file so it goes to the Zend path, that works fine however my question is to create for example a form do I really need to require every path.

For example:

    require_once('Zend/Form.php');
require_once('Zend/Form/Element.php');
require_once('Zend/Form/Exception.php');
require_once('Zend/Form/Element/Text.php');

Is there something I’m missing?

Regards

Answer 1

You are missing everything about Zend_Autoloader. 1 sec and i’ll fetch some links and examples.

http://zendframework.com/manual/1.11/en/learning.autoloading.usage.html

OK so you generally configure your autoloader in your Application Bootstrap

<?php
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initDoctype()
    {
        $this->bootstrap('view');
        $view = $this->getResource('view');
        $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
    }

    protected function _initAutoload()
    {
        $auto_loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();

        $resource_loader = new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource(
            array(
                'basePath'       => APPLICATION_PATH,
                'namespace'      => '',
                'resourceTypes'  => array(
                    'my'   => array(
                        'path'      => '/../library/My/',
                        'namespace' => 'My_'
                    ),
                )
            )
        );

        return $auto_loader;
    }

    ... MORE FUNCTIONS
}

So that set up the base autoloader, and an autoloader for another Library that I wrote (mostly custom validators and such, called “My”, that exists next to the Zend Libraries

Then in each of your Modules, have a bootstrap file:

<?php
class Default_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap
{

}

It doesn’t have to have anything in it, the parent module bootstrapper sets up autoloading for that module

one last thing, in your webroot, there is a index.php file that passes all requests to your application. Make sure that you are adding the library to the php include path.

// Ensure library/ is on include_path
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
    realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library'),
    get_include_path(),
)));