How to pass variables to Bootstrap.php

Question

Is there a way how I could pass variables to Bootstrap.php? This is how I bootstrap in the index.php:

// let's go!
$application = new Zend_Application(APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT,
                                    APPLICATION_PATH.'/configs/application.ini');

try {
    $application->bootstrap();
    $application->run();
} catch (Exception $exception) {
    echo $exception->getMessage();
    exit(1);
}

In one method of my Bootstrap.php class I need to have access to some variables from index.php and using $GLOBALS is just awful:

protected function _initFilePathConverter()
{
    require_once (PATH_TO_LIB_UTIL.'/FilePathConverter.php');
    $this->aFilePathConverter = new FilePathConverter();
    $this->aFilePathConverter->AddPathPairs($GLOBALS['REAL_PATHS'], $GLOBALS['HTTP_PATHS']);
}

Answer 1

You can use Zend_Registry.

E.g. in the index.php you could say:

Zend_Registry::set('Real_Paths', array('my', 'paths'));

Make sure you do that after you've created the Zend_Application object, so the Zend autoloader has been initialized. And then in the bootstrap:

$real_paths = Zend_Registry::get('Real_Paths');

Answer 2

Try this:

index.php

<?

$testvar = 'testing';

?>

bootstrap.php

protected function _initFilePathConverter()
{
    global $testvar;
    echo $testvar;
}