Using Zend Framework with Kohana

November 14th, 2008

Posted by Fred Wu

Since my previous post on this topic, Kohana has evolved and changed quite a bit, to the point that the instructions provided are no longer applicable.

So here are the updated instructions for those who would like to integrate Zend Framework into Kohana.

1) Put the ‘Zend’ folder in your application’s ‘vendors’ directory.

2) Put the following code into an appropriate place in your application, it could be in the base controller.

if ($path = Kohana::find_file('vendors', 'Zend/Exception'))
{
	ini_set('include_path',
	ini_get('include_path').PATH_SEPARATOR.dirname(dirname($path)));
}

3) Instanciate the Zend library with the following code:

require_once 'Zend/Mail.php';
$mail = new Zend_Mail;

That’s it! How simple is that? :)

Tags: integration, Kohana, Zend Framework

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Chris Utley
November 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am

1

Awesome! So simple… love it. Thanks
Web development Greece
April 15th, 2010 at 9:42 am

9

So simple!!! Same~ way we can include other classes as well (for example I am used to phpmailer). Wouldn’t it be better to use an autoload functionality (steill new to those frameworks…), so that you include only necessary files and optimise performance? How would this be possible?
荒野无灯
October 4th, 2011 at 6:48 am

11

good tips.I’ve used CI before,and I’am dout to use Kohana , Yii or ZF ,read some of your articles,I think I should try Konaha.

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