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Accessing your configuration data in application.ini

Zend_Application will read the data in your application.ini and make it available from your bootstrap's getOptions() method. It then sets the bootstrap as a parameter in the front controller. Note that the top level keys are all normalised to lowercase too.

You can then retrieve the options in a number of ways.

In the controller you can do this:


    public function someAction()
    {
        $bootstrap = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap'); 
        $options = $bootstrap->getOptions();
    }

Outside of the controller you can do this:


    $bootstrap = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap');
    $options = $bootstrap->getOptions();

One downside is that $options is a nested array, and not a Zend_Config object. If you prefer to work with a Zend_Config object you need to create it yourself as Zend_Application discards the one it creates. The easiest way to do this is to create a new method in your bootstrap to create the Zend_Config object and store to the registry.


    protected function _initConfig()
    {
        $config = new Zend_Config($this->getOptions());
        Zend_Registry::set('config', $config);
        return $config;
    }

You can then get at your config data wherever you need it. Try not to depend too much on Zend_Registry keys though, as it can make testing harder.

This entry was posted on Friday, 27th November 2009 at 12:11 and is filed under Zend Framework. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

9 Responses to “Accessing your configuration data in application.ini”

  1. 1 Tobi
    November 27th, 2009 at 17:05 #

    I used the same way to make my config available. I also set the db adapter in Zend_Registry.

    Regards
    Tobi

  2. 2 Anton Shevchuk
    November 28th, 2009 at 09:59 #

    Thanks for this is solution

  3. 3 Jon Whitcraft
    November 30th, 2009 at 15:37 #

    Rob,

    Thanks I was just looking for how to get access to the options in a view helper with out using Zend_Registry.

    Thanks!

  4. 4 Jon Whitcraft
    November 30th, 2009 at 15:38 #

    You have one two many ')' on your second example.

  5. 5 Rob...
    November 30th, 2009 at 15:41 #

    Thanks Jon,

    Fixed :)

    Rob...

  6. 6 bin
    December 4th, 2009 at 07:36 #

    Hello
    Thanks for your post.
    Help me. How to access database ressources in application.ini and write to Zend_Registry ?

    Thanks a lot

  7. 7 Rob...
    December 6th, 2009 at 10:05 #

    bin,

    
    protected function _initDatabaseRegistry()
    {
        $this->bootstrap("db");
        $db = $this->getResource("db");
        Zend_Registry::set('db', $db);
        return $db;
    }

    Regards,

    Rob...

  8. 8 Neck
    December 20th, 2009 at 01:42 #

    Note that you can actually combine bootstrap's registry with zend registry (why having duplicates ?)

    protected function _initRegistry() { $this->setContainer(Zend_Registry::getInstance());
    }

  9. 9 Steve P. Sharpe
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:03 #

    Hi Rob,

    Thanks for this, it really helped!

    Bookmarked...

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