Simon, we are discussing this very thing right now in a proposal: http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resourc e+-+Matthew+Weier+O%27Phinney
Let me first mention that within a module the classes always start with SomeModuleName_.... > Just a question really on how others do the same sort of thing... That being > the loading of forms, models and anything else outside the immediate ZF > fold. I have my modules and each has a model and form directory, then any > other directories for resources. I thought it would be a good idea to use > the autoloader to load these. > > Everything is called... Module_Form_Name (module being the module name, form > being the resource and name being a unique name). All works well except of > course module directories are lower case and my server wants the files cased > properly! That's exactly the type of thing we are gonna attempt to autoload. There will be an explicit mapping of application resources to class files. Personally, I do like lowercased-dashed directories in my project, as to me it makes the most sense from a filesystem persepctive. (I've seen it done lower_underscored as well. > I have three options as I see it. > > 1) Upper case my module directories (although I want lower case urls). > > 2) Create loader helpers to load everything (currently I've done this but > with a twist so it still uses Zend_Loader as it lower cases the first letter > of each resource... module_Form_Name ... Seems messy!) This is also long > winded when the autoloader does such a good job. > > 3) Require everything. > Yep, different people do any one two and three above, they are both pretty common solutions. Have a look at the proposal and add your notes there. You can also track the development (matthew has a prototype linked in there believe). -ralph -- Ralph Schindler Software Engineer | ralph.schind...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
