How to change include directory of Zend Framework - zend-framework

Question

I get the following error messages:
Warning: include_once(Zend\Db.php) [function.include-once]:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
C:\EasyPHP3\www\VPZ\Lib\Zend_1.7.7\Loader.php on line 83
Warning: include_once() [function.include]:
Failed opening 'Zend\Db.php' for inclusion (include_path='VPZ/') in
C:\EasyPHP3\www\VPZ\Lib\Zend_1.7.7\Loader.php on line 83
Warning: require_once(Zend/Exception.php)
[function.require-once]: failed to open stream:
No such file or directory in
C:\EasyPHP3\www\VPZ\Lib\Zend_1.7.7\Loader.php on line 87
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]:
Failed opening required 'Zend/Exception.php' (include_path='VPZ/') in
C:\EasyPHP3\www\VPZ\Lib\Zend_1.7.7\Loader.php on line 87
i want to include ZendXXX\Db.php
how to change it

Answer 1

create a directory (say 'lib'), and put your Zend directory in it. so your directory structure looks like this:
- application
- lib
|- Zend
- wwwroot
|- index.php
now you should add lib to your include path. edit your index.php file:
$includePath = array();
$includePath[] = '.';
$includePath[] = './../application';
$includePath[] = './../lib';
$includePath[] = get_include_path();
$includePath = implode(PATH_SEPARATOR,$includePath);
set_include_path($includePath);
now you have your lib in your include path. you can include all Zend components like this:
include 'Zend/Loader.php';
require_once 'Zend/Db.php';
the best way is too include Zend_Loader first and then use it to load classes. do this:
require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Db');
you can also register to autoload classes. just add this line to your code after all those before:
Zend_Loader::registerAutoLoad('Zend_Loader',true);
now you do not need to include files to call classes. just instanciate your classes:
$session = new Zend_Session_Namespace('user');
there is no need to include 'Zend/Session/Namespace.php'.

Answer 2

Use set_include_path(). See PHP.net documentation
Example:
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '/path/to/Zend');

Answer 3

I usually store the framework files under a "library" folder:
application
public_html
library
Zend
Common
etc....
and then in my bootstrap file, or front controller, I add that "library" folder to the include path:
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . '../library');
See also:
Choosing Your Application's Directory Layout.
Create the Filesystem Layout.

Answer 4

The reason the other suggestions say anything about doing that, is because it's a bad move - in other words, you're doing it wrong.
You can create a subdirectory and name it Zendxxx, but then you have to add that to your include_path, and change it, whenever you put a newly named version up.
I'd hazard a guess, and say that you don't have a good way to test the website (so you want to lock it to a particular version of ZF), and further, that you aren't using revision control, so you want all the previous versions of code in the site-directory to be able to go back to, if you find a problem when you change the live-running code directly on the server.

Answer 5

project without library And including library from one location
project C:\xampp\htdocs\my\application
library C:\xampp\Zend\library
make changes in index.php
// Ensure library/ is on include_path
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR,
array(realpath(APPLICATION_PATH.'/../../../Zend/library'),get_include_path(),)));