Module Bootstraps in Zend Framework: Do's and Don'ts
Note: This article was originally published at phly, boy, phly
on 16 March 2010.
I see a number of questions regularly about module bootstraps in Zend Framework, and decided it was time to write a post about them finally.
In Zend Framework 1.8.0, we added Zend_Application, which is intended to (a) formalize the bootstrapping process, and (b) make it re-usable. One aspect of it was to allow bootstrapping of individual application modules -- which are discrete collections of controllers, views, and models.
The most common question I get regarding module bootstraps is:
Why are all module bootstraps run on every request, and not just the one for the requested module?
To answer that question, first I need to provide some background.
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