Version 1.8 of the Zend Framework introduced a whole new concept of bootstrapping an application. The core functionality is contained in the Zend_Application component which supports a strictly object-oriented approach to bootstrapping. Although the new concept is fairly straightforward, it does take a little time to get used to it if you are used to the bootstrapping process in earlier versions of ZF.
One of the many interesting features of Zend_Application is the ability to push resources into resource plugin classes which can be utilized simply via configuration. In this tutorial we will be looking at creating a custom resource plugin. The plugin is quite simple, it creates a “value object” with the name, author and version of the application, and stores it in the Zend registry.
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