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Quickie Zend Framework Bootstrap Note

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Dear Reader,

I’ve been teaching a Zend Framework class this week and my students have been throwing all kinds of questions at me. Most recently, while we were discussing creating a Bootstrap class for an application a question came up about the _init* functions.

The manual states that

$bootstrap->bootstrap();

will fire all of the _init* functions in the bootstrap class. However, the question came up, in what order? Thanks to friends like Rob Allen (author of “Zend Framework in Action“), I was able to give them the answer.

The answer is, usually, in the order of execution, however, these is an exception.

Given this bootstrap class:

< ?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()
        {
            $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
                'namespace' => 'Default_',
                'basePath'  => dirname(__FILE__),
            ));
            return $autoloader;
        }
 
 
    public function _initRoutes()
    {
        $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $router = $front->getRouter();
        $route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(':language/:module/:controller/:action/*',
                                                  array('language'   => 'en',
                                                        'module'     => 'default',
                                                        'controller' => 'index',
                                                        'action'     => 'index'
                                                        )
                                                  );
        $router->addRoute('lang_default', $route);
    } 
 
    Public function _initMyFirstInit()
    {
	/// stuff goes here
    }
 
    Public function _initMySecondInit()
    {
	/// stuff goes here
    }
 
    Public function _initMyThirdInit()
    {
	/// stuff goes here
    }
}

Now, in this example I have 6 _init* functions. When I call

$bootstrap->bootstrap();

in my index.php, it will fire them in the order that they were created.

However, if I have one that needs to be called first, out of order, I can use:

$bootstrap->bootstrap(‘MySecondInit’);

That will fire _initMySecondInit() manually.

Then, when I call

$bootstrap->bootstrap();

It will fire the rest of the methods, in order, skipping _initMySecondInit() because it’s already been called.

That’s an amazing piece of code.

Thanks again to Rob Allen for helping figure this out.

Until Next time
I <3 |<
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Tags: bootstrap, hints, PHP, Programming, tips, zend framework, zend_application

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