Comments on: Magento Woes (Zend Framework)

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:12:19 +0000

@till – That was an oversight on my part – I’ll make sure to update the post shortly with relevant information. Typically the people running into this issue the above is fine, though you’re right depending on what scripts they’re running.

By: Michael Denney

Michael Denney — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:51:55 +0000

Definitely good information – it is nice to see that you include the Zend Framework

By: till

till — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:32:41 +0000

This is an ongoing issue, and it would be simple for the Magento folks to fix. I remember I had a similar issue in an early 0.x version of Magento and even reported it somewhere, but it looks like there is no fix.

Anyway, instead of appending the include_path, when the shop is initialized, they need to prepend to the current path. The include path is always search from left to right, e.g. .:/foo:/bar — then the current directory (aka “.”) is first, then /foo, before /bar.

So If Magento would be “first” there would be less issues with the environment.

Regardless of the above, the default include_path should be:
php_value include_path .:/home/

Though it probably doesn’t matter since Magento adds its own jist anyway. But some of your own scripts might fail if you forget the “.”.