-- Jurian Sluiman <[email protected]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 07:14 PM +0100):
> First you need to know this:
> A resource (most time) creates something (a view, db, log, whatever). You
> might
> want to grab this "thing", but sometimes you need the access to the plugin
> itself.
>
>
> The getResource() gets the "thing" for you. The getResourcePlugin() gets the
> plugin. So you might have a db resource, returning the db adapter. Then, it's
> enough to do:
> $db = $this->getResource('db');
>
>
> It might you want to have access to a certain method of the resource plugin.
> Then, you do this:
> $result = $this->getPluginResource('db')->doSomething();
That's an *excellent* way of summarizing it, Jurian -- well spoken!
> You could trick the outcome of getResource() by implementing a "get" method.
> So
> your db resource needs a (public) function getDb(), which will return a db
> adapter instance.
>
> Regards, Jurian
> --
> Jurian Sluiman
> Soflomo.com
>
>
> Op Tuesday 27 October 2009 18:45:46 schreef ljs629:
> > I'm new to ZF and I'm trying to figure out the difference between resource
> > and plugin resource - specifically, I have a working site and in the
> > bootstrap I init the doctype with this:
> >
> >
> > public function _initDocType(){
> > $this->bootstrap('view');
> > $view = $this->getResource('view');
> > $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
> > }
> >
> > And I init the registry with this:
> >
> >
> > public function _initRegistry()
> > {
> > $this->bootstrap('db');
> > $resource = $this->getPluginResource('db');
> > $db = $resource->getDbAdapter();
> > Zend_Registry::set('db', $db);
> > }
> >
> > My question is, why do I need to use getResource for the 'view' BUT
> > getPluginResource for the 'db'? Both seem to be defined in my
> > application.ini:
> > ...
> > resources.view =
> > ...
> > resources.db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
> > resources.db.params.host = localhost
> > resources.db.params.username = xxxx
> > resources.db.params.dbname = xxxxxxx
> > resources.db.params.password = xxxxxxx
> > ...
> >
> > Thanks!
>
--
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