Chapter 4. Zend_Application

Table of Contents

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Zend_Application Quick Start
4.2.1. Using Zend_Tool
4.2.2. Adding Zend_Application to your application
4.2.3. Adding and creating resources
4.2.4. Next steps with Zend_Application
4.3. Theory of Operation
4.3.1. Bootstrapping
4.3.1.1. Resource Methods
4.3.1.2. Bootstraps that use resource plugins
4.3.1.3. Resource Registry
4.3.1.4. Dependency Tracking
4.3.2. Resource Plugins
4.4. Examples
4.5. Core Functionality
4.5.1. Zend_Application
4.5.2. Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrapper
4.5.3. Zend_Application_Bootstrap_ResourceBootstrapper
4.5.4. Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract
4.5.5. Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
4.5.6. Zend_Application_Resource_Resource
4.5.7. Zend_Application_Resource_ResourceAbstract
4.5.7.1. Resource Names
4.6. Available Resource Plugins
4.6.1. Zend_Application_Resource_Db
4.6.2. Zend_Application_Resource_Frontcontroller
4.6.3. Zend_Application_Resource_Modules
4.6.4. Zend_Application_Resource_Session
4.6.5. Zend_Application_Resource_View

4.1. Introduction

Zend_Application provides a bootstrapping facility for applications which provides reusable resources, common- and module-based bootstrap classes and dependency checking. It also takes care of setting up the PHP environment and introduces autoloading by default.