Hi,

I'll make a CMS in PHP and I thought it could be saving me a lot of work to make it in ZF.

I don't really now how I should start on this as I never worked with ZF and I don't really understand how it's working. (I don't know every term (like for example a view helper and so one...) but I started making a directory structure and I don't know if this is the best structure for my CMS.

My CMS must have this features:
- Modular system
- Multiple themes (with different view files so the layout can be changed totally and not only with an other css file for example)

This is what I have now for the structure:
Is this scruture good and does someone have any suggestions for me so I can make it better?

And this is my bootstrap:
[PHP]<?php
// Show every error
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

// Add the zend library to the include path
set_include_path('../library' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());

// Auto load every class we need
require_once "Zend/Loader.php";
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

// Load config
require_once 'config.php';
$config = new Zend_Config($config);
Zend_Registry::set('config', $config);

// Set up layout
$layout = Zend_Layout::startMvc(array(
'layout' => 'default',
'layoutPath' => '../application/layouts',
'contentKey' => 'content',
));

// DB connection
try {
$db = new Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql($config->database->params->toArray());
$db->getConnection();
Zend_Registry::set('dbConnection', $db);
} catch (Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception $e) {
echo 'Unexpected error!';
exit;
} catch (Zend_Exception $e) {
echo 'Unexpected error!';
exit;
}

// Error controller
$errorHandler = new Zend_Controller_Plugin_ErrorHandler();
$errorHandler->setErrorHandler(array('controller' => 'Error', 'action' => 'Error', 'module' => 'cms'));

// Set up front controller class
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$frontController->throwExceptions(true);
$frontController->addModuleDirectory('../application/modules');
$frontController->setDefaultModule('index');
$frontController->registerPlugin( $errorHandler , 100 );
$frontController->setParam('noErrorHandler', true);
$frontController->dispatch();

// Quit page
$db->closeConnection();[/PHP]

Is this a good bootstrap?

Howdy,

I m making a similar thingy, here s the bootstrap used currently :
[PHP]
<?php
/**
* blabla ...
* @name Bootstrap
* @package minisite
* @author fabrice
* @version v1.0
*
*/

set_include_path (
'.' . PATH_SEPARATOR .
'../library' . PATH_SEPARATOR .
'../../../../library' . PATH_SEPARATOR .
'../application/default/models/' . PATH_SEPARATOR .
get_include_path () );

require_once 'Zend/Controller/Front.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload (); // pour ne pas ecrire xx lignes de loadClass()

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

/*
* données connexion BDD, layout, etc.
*/
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini ( '../application/default/config/config.ini', 'general' );

$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance ();
$registry->set ( 'config', $config );

/*
* mise en place bdd
*/
try {
$db = Zend_Db::factory ( $config->db );
Zend_Db_Table::setDefaultAdapter ( $db );
} catch ( Exception $e ) {
exit ( $e->getMessage () );
}
Zend_Registry::set ( 'dbAdapter', $db ); // accessible partout

/*
* Gestion des acces ressources
*/

$acl = new My_ACL ( ); //../library/My/ACL.php c'est automagique
Zend_Registry::set ( 'acl', $acl ); // accessible partout

/*
* L'authentification
*/
// durée de session
$storage = new Zend_Auth_Storage_Session ( );
$sessionNamespace = new Zend_Session_Namespace ( $storage->getNamespace () );
$sessionNamespace->setExpirationSeconds ( 600 ); // 10 min
// la session
$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance ();
$auth->setStorage ( $storage );
Zend_Registry::set ( 'auth', $auth );
// la gestion est definie dans le plugin My_PluginAuth

/**
* Setup controller
*/
$controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance ();
$controller->setControllerDirectory ( '../application/default/controllers' );
$controller->throwExceptions ( TRUE ); // should be turned on in development time

/*
* la gestion auth+acl est assurée par ../library/My/PluginAuth.php
*/
$controller->registerPlugin ( new My_PluginAuth ( $auth, $acl ) );


/**
* Router pour les chemins
*/
$router = new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite();
$router->addConfig( new Zend_Config_Ini('../application/default/config/routes.ini', null) );
$controller->setRouter($router);

/*
* Layout à la MVC
* application/default/layouts/layout.phtml est la presentation de toutes les pages
* chaque vue est insérée ensuite a l'interieur
*/
Zend_Layout::startMvc ( $config->layout );

// run!
try {
$controller->dispatch ();
} catch ( Exception $e ) {
echo nl2br ( $e->__toString () );
}
[/PHP]

Some usefull inspirations :

More Example Zend Framework Blog madness Christer’s blog o’ fun

Codecaine.co.za / Codecaine.co.za now in SVN

Thnx dude!