In better news Zend Framework 1.10 was released today.

Can’t to write them and put them out there. Also can’t wait to post pictures from the vacation and post some pretty cool stories!

Here is the original code:

IndexController.php

require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
    }
}

We can remove the ‘require_once’ line, and then we need to set up the Zend Autoloader which can be done in your bootstrap file as follows:

index.php

...
require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();
...

I am not saying that my way is the ‘right’ way, but this might help streamline the design of your project, and remove some un-necessary ‘includes’. You can also load a class using the Zend_Loader by calling:

...
Zend_Loader::loadClass('CLASS NAME');
...

All of the tutorials are great. Maurice Fonk has some great insight into ZF, and has a great article on Integrating Smarty Templating Engine into ZF. Rob Allen’s blog also has some great stuff.