Question

I’m trying to use forms with modules, they should be stored inside the module. So at first my filestructure:

application/
   (...other directories)
   modules/
       group/
          controllers/
             IndexController.php
             (...controllers)
          forms/
             Create.php
          views/
             scripts/
                (...view scripts)
          Bootstrap.php

Within the IndexController, I’m trying to set the Form by

new Group_Form_Create()

and the class in Create.php is of course Group_Form_Create. I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Class 'Group_Form_Create' not found in (...)\application\modules\group\controllers\IndexController.php on line 380

The Bootstrap.php with the class Group_Bootstrap is just an empty class.
Actually, I’m using the default Zend structure, but it woun’t work anyway. Any ideas wheres the problems or what could be a possible solution?

Answer 1

In my module bootstrap (APPLICATION_PATH/modules/group/Bootstrap.php), if use the following code:

    //Loads the autoloader resources
    $this->_moduleName = 'group';
    $resourceLoader = new Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource(array(
            'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH ."/modules/".$this->_moduleName."/",
            'namespace' => '',
            'resourceTypes' => array(
                    //Tells the application where to find the forms
                    'form' => array(
                            'path' => 'forms/',
                            'namespace' => ucfirst($this->_moduleName).'_Form_'
                    ),
                    //Tells the application where to find the models
                    'model' => array(
                            'path' => 'models/',
                            'namespace' => ucfirst($this->_moduleName).'_Model_'
                    )
            )
    ));

I then call the forms or models like this:

$frm = new Group_Form_Create();

I use the same snippet in all my modules and I only change the value of the $this->_moduleName; each time.

Hope this helps !