Probable reasons why autoloading wont work in Zend Framework 1.10.2? - zend-framework

Question

Iam writing an application using Zend Framework 1.10.2.
I created few model classes and a controller to process them.
When Iam executing my application and accessing the admin controller. Iam seeing this error.
Fatal error: Class 'Application_Model_DbTable_Users' not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\bidpopo\application\controllers\AdminController.php on line 16
The error clearly shows its an autoloading error.
Hence I wrote this code in the bootstrap file.
protected function initAutoload()
{
$modeLoader = new Zend_Application_Module_AutoLoader(array
('namespace'=>'','basePath'=>APPLICATION_PATH ));
//echo(APPLICATION_PATH);
return $modeLoader;
}
Still the error remains :( . Can anyone suggest me what Iam missing out here?
This is the location of the Model Users class.
C:\xampp\htdocs\bidpopo\application\models\DbTable\Users.php
This is its code.
class Application_Model_DbTable_Users extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
{
//put your code here
protected $_name='users';
public function getUser($id)
{
$id = (int)$id;
$row = $this->fetchrow('id='.$id);
if(!$row)
{throw new Exception("Could not find row id - $id");}
return $row->toArray();
}
public function addUser($userDetailArray)
{
$this->insert($userDetailsArray);
}
public function updateUser($id,$userDetailArray)
{
$this->update($userDetailArray,'id='.(int)$id);
}
public function deleteUser($id)
{
$this->delete('id='. (int)$id);
}
}
This is the Admin Controller's code
class AdminController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function init()
{
/* Initialize action controller here */
}
public function indexAction()
{
$this->view->title= "All Users";
$this->view->headTitle($this->view->title);
$users = new Application_Model_DbTable_Users();
$this->view->users = $users->fetchAll();
}
public function addUserAction()
{
// action body
}
public function editUserAction()
{
// action body
}
public function deleteUserAction()
{
// action body
}

Answer 1

You application classes don't follow the proper naming convention for the namespace you've set. The Zend_Application_Module_AutoLoader is a little different than the normal autoloader in that it doesn't simply change the '_' in the class name with '/'. It looks at the second part of the class name and then checks a folder for the existence of the class based on that.
You need to change the line:
$modeLoader = new Zend_Application_Module_AutoLoader(array(
'namespace'=>'Application',
'basePath'=>APPLICATION_PATH
));
This means it will autoload all module classes prefixed with 'Application_'. When it the second part of the class is 'Model_' it will look in "{$basePath}/models" for the class. The '_' in the rest of the class name will be replaced with '/'. So the file path of the file will be "{$basePath}/models/DbTable/Users.php".
Read more here.