-- jasonzfw <[email protected]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 01 September 2009, 10:15 AM -0700):
> Which brings me to my question. Surely there's a way to use models found in
> the Default module within other modules such as an Admin module? Otherwise
> the only alternative seems to be copying and renaming models into the Admin
> module's model directory?
Absolutely.
Simply make sure you've setup a resource autoloader for the default
module. There are two ways to do this:
* In your default module's bootstrap, initialize an autoloader:
protected function _initDefaultAutoloader()
{
$al = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
'namespace' => 'Default', // or 'App', or whatever
'basePath' => dirname(__FILE__),
));
return $al;
}
* As of 1.9.2, you can segregate your default module from your
application path, and load its bootstrap separately. For example,
with the following tree:
application/
|-- Bootstrap.php
|-- configs/
|-- modules/
| |-- default/
| | |-- Bootstrap.php
application/modules/default/Bootstrap.php would contain the class
Default_Bootstrap extending Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap. In
this case, the autoloader initialization is already done, using the
namespace 'Default'.
Once autoloading is complete, if your models are in the appropriate
directory and named correctly:
models/
Foo.php - Default_Model_Foo
then you can simply instantiate them and use them:
$foo = new Default_Model_Foo();
and not need to worry in your code about where they come from.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | [email protected]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
