Zend for Beginners

Hi smriti, welcome! I don't think someone here will be able to solve every possible problem you have. If there are specific questions that you may have, please feel free to ask them in our forum. If there's something that you feel would make a good video, then don't be shy and suggest it

Hello Jon I have some problem with 'models'. I am including the the model path but still my
program is not identifying the class ,which I stored in 'models'. Can you solve it for me and tell me why it is or was not identifying my 'models' folder.

This is my Folder structure

/application
    /configs
       -application.ini

    /controllers
       -ErrorController.php
       -IndexController.php

    /layouts
       -layout.phtml

    /forms
       
    /models
       -Test.php

    /views
       /helpers
       /scripts
        /error
             -error.phtml
        /index
                    -index.phtml

    -Bootstrap.php

/library
    /Zend

/public
    -index.php
    -.htaccess

----------------------------------------------
[ index.php  : Script ]
----------------------------------------------
<?php
defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
    || define('APPLICATION_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../application'));

defined('APPLICATION_ENV')
    || define('APPLICATION_ENV', (getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') ? getenv('APPLICATION_ENV') : 'production'));

set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
    realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library'),
    realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/models'),
    get_include_path(),
)));

require_once 'Zend/Application.php'; 

$application = new Zend_Application(
    APPLICATION_ENV,
    APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
);
$application->bootstrap()->run();

-------------------------------------------------
[ Bootstrap.php  : Script ]
-------------------------------------------------
<?php

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initAutoload()
    {
        $moduleLoader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
            'namespace' => '',
            'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH));
        return $moduleLoader;
    }
    protected function _initViewHelpers()
    {
        $this->bootstrap('layout');
        $layout = $this->getResource('layout');
        $view = $layout->getView();
        $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
        $view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8');
    }   
   
}

---------------------------------------------------
[ application.ini : script ]
---------------------------------------------------
[production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"
includePaths.models = APPLICATION_PATH "/models"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"
resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"
resources.layout.layoutpath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts"

resources.db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
resources.db.params.host = localhost
resources.db.params.username = root
resources.db.params.password = root
resources.db.params.dbname = zend_test

---------------------------------------------------
[ Test.php  :  script ]
---------------------------------------------------
<?php
class Test extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
{
    protected $_name = 'testing';
}
?>

--------------------------------------------------
[ IndexController.php  :  script ]
--------------------------------------------------
<?php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $user = new Test();       // Line 6
    }

}

----------------------
The Output is
----------------------
Fatal error: Class 'Test' not found in C:\www\sandbox\zendtest\application\controllers\IndexController.php on line 6

PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND FAULT WHICH I HAVE DONE IN MY PROGRAM

Last edited by smriti (2009-12-16 08:17:25)

Thanks Manuel. I followed the URL. It's really useful to me to solve my problem. Yes maintaining the naming convention of classes is very Important in Zend. From your suggestion I got 100% idea that what I have to do to solve this problem. Thanks again for this

I would use Zend_Form natively, because:

- it's faster (no xml startup..)
- you can get a better feeling about what is possible

Css classed can be added to every element. If you need to change the markup, you can do this by using your own so-called 'Decorators'.

The chapter about Zend_Form in the manual will get you pretty quickly started and you start to feel the real power of ZF immediately

I am trying to create sub-forms of a form. For this I am using Decorators. But there are a lots of implementation techniques in Internet. So I want to know, to create sub forms where should I implement the decorator. In a Form class or in "*.phtml' view file. And one more thing when I am using decorator to "*.phtml" file to create the sub forms, the decorator is working properly with all form elements except  'file' form element. Therefore please suggest me what should I do.

Last edited by smriti (2010-01-01 07:47:24)

Thanks 'ryan.horn' for your suggestion. I think, I have to study on it more. Then I will be more conscious about the implementation of Decorators.