Using Zend Framework 1.8+ with Kohana

October 29th, 2009

Posted by Fred Wu

Even though the method outlined in my previous post would still work, I thought I’d post a cleaner one to handle the auto-load of Zend Framework classes in Kohana.

The code works with Zend Framework 1.8+, where a new Autoloader class has been introduced.

You can put the code in an appropriate place in your application, it could be in the base controller, or if you’re using Kohana 3.0, in the bootstrap file.

You now no longer need to manually ‘include/require’ Zend Framework files. :)

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

	require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
	Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
}

Tags: autoload, integration, Kohana, Zend Framework

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3 Responses to “Using Zend Framework 1.8+ with Kohana”

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dcunited08
October 29th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

1

Personally, for version 3 I would create a module and use the init.php file in that module to contain your code above.
Aza
January 10th, 2010 at 1:44 am

2

Thanks for this guys.

What would be the simplest way to integrate Doctrine into Kohana-3?
Kemo
January 24th, 2010 at 9:47 pm

3

I’ve done a lot more flexible autoload for ZF, without renaming the library files and folder or searching and replacing the code in them. Just overwritten the original auto_load function with my own.

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