Daniel Kendell

Mainly a note to myself, but it’s handy to know.

When you instanciate Zend_Application, you provide it with a path to the config file (Or an instance if you’re feelin’ kinky) Zend_Application loads this into a Zend_Config object and does it’s bit with it.

What’s less obvious is how to retrieve that config from within a Zend_Controller_Action::method().

My solution until recently was to have an _initConfig() in my bootstrap class that read in the file again, and stored the instance in a Zend_Registry entry. However I think I cracked the “proper” way or “better” way to do it.

<?php

class MyController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
	/**
	 * @var array The application configuration
	 * @access protected
	 */
	protected $_config;

	/**
	 * Init
	 *
	 * Retrieve and assign the application configuration
	 *
	 * @access public
	 * @return null
	 */
	public function init()
	{
		$this->_config = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()
			->getParam( 'bootstrap' )
			->getOptions();
	}
}

?>

Edit: In that particular example there is actually an instance of Zend_Controller_Front closer to hand, you could use $this->_frontController. But I’ll stick with ::getInstance() for the example since since it gets the job done.