I have just pushed some updates to the Git repository.
The entire Kohana distribution is now included. The bridging class is now renamed to ‘Kbridge’.
Not all helpers and libraries will work at the moment, especially the ones that reference Kohana core classes. I am however planning to bridge the core classes and configuration files for tighter integration.
If you have any suggestions please let me know. :)
Yii is an excellent PHP framework, but it lacks some helpers for performing common tasks.
Since I am so used to using Kohana helpers, hey, why don’t we bring these helpers into Yii? :)
Since my previous post on this topic, Kohana has evolved and changed quite a bit, to the point that the instructions provided are no longer applicable.
So here are the updated instructions for those who would like to integrate Zend Framework into Kohana.
1) Put the ‘Zend’ folder in your application’s ‘vendors’ directory.
2) Put the following code into an appropriate place in your application, it could be in the base controller.
if ($path = Kohana::find_file('vendors', 'Zend/Exception'))
{
ini_set('include_path',
ini_get('include_path').PATH_SEPARATOR.dirname(dirname($path)));
}
3) Instanciate the Zend library with the following code:
require_once 'Zend/Mail.php'; $mail = new Zend_Mail;
That’s it! How simple is that? :)