Combine Zend Framework with Codeigniter will give great result and cutting development time. Intergrating Zend Framework into CodeIgniter 2.0 is very easy. First, you download new Zend Framework here . After downloading, unpack it package and get Zend folder. Put this Zend folder into app/libraries in CodeIgniter.
Then, we create Zend libraries :
in app/libraries/ we create Zend.php.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 | <?php if (!defined(‘BASEPATH’)) {exit(‘No direct script access allowed’);} /** * Zend Framework Loader * * Put the ‘Zend’ folder (unpacked from the Zend Framework package, under ‘Library’) * in CI installation’s ‘application/libraries’ folder * You can put it elsewhere but remember to alter the script accordingly * * Usage: * 1) $this->load->library(‘zend’, ‘Zend/Package/Name’); * or * 2) $this->load->library(‘zend’); * then $this->zend->load(‘Zend/Package/Name’); * * * the second usage is useful for autoloading the Zend Framework library * * Zend/Package/Name does not need the ‘.php’ at the end */ class CI_Zend { /** * Constructor * * @param string $class class name */ function __construct($class = NULL) { // include path for Zend Framework // alter it accordingly if you have put the ‘Zend’ folder elsewhere ini_set(‘include_path’, ini_get(‘include_path’) . PATH_SEPARATOR . APPPATH . ‘libraries’); if ($class){ require_once (string) $class . EXT; log_message(‘debug’, "Zend Class $class Loaded"); } else { log_message(‘debug’, "Zend Class Initialized"); } } /** * Zend Class Loader * * @param string $class class name */ function load($class) { require_once (string) $class . EXT; log_message(‘debug’, "Zend Class $class Loaded"); } } |
To use this libraries, for example i load Zend Json components :
1 2 3 4 5 | $CI =& get_instance(); $CI->load->library(‘zend’); $CI->zend->load(‘Zend/Json’); $this->ZendJson = new Zend_Json(); |
It’s pretty easy right? 🙂
Kudos to http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/02/21/using-zend-framework-with-codeigniter/