Using Zend Framework w/o installing it in server root?

Question

I am trying to use Zend's Gbase library, but I cannot figure out how to do so without actually installing it in the PHP path.

The complication comes from wanting to make a module for Drupal that is not constrained by the server it is installed on, but can access the library by having it installed in a subfolder of the module.

Does anyone know how to do this? I have tried doing an include of Zend's Loader and then loading the classes I want, but this keeps throwing errors. Do I NEED to install the library on the server, or is there a way around this, to only have it used on this application?

This is the code:

require_once 'library/Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_Gbase');

I get the folowing messages:

Warning: Zend_Loader::include(Zend/Gdata/Gbase.php) [zend-loader.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/ftp-www/tests/gdata/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 83

Warning: Zend_Loader::include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Zend/Gdata/Gbase.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /srv/www/ftp-www/tests/gdata/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 83

Warning: Zend_Loader::require_once(Zend/Exception.php) [zend-loader.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/ftp-www/tests/gdata/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 87

Fatal error: Zend_Loader::require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Zend/Exception.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /srv/www/ftp-www/tests/gdata/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 87

Answer 1

What about using set_include_path to configure your include_path, adding to it the directory in which Zend Framework's code is ?

This way, you can have it whereever you want -- whitout having to modify the include_path in the php.ini configuration file.

For instance, something like this might do :

$path = '/PATH_TO_THE_FRAMEWORK/';
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);

Wouldn't that help ?

Answer 2

You need to specify where to look for the class files. Try:

Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_Gbase', 'library/')

Or you may want to set the library folder in your php include path