Class ‘Zend_Db_Table’ not found

New developers sometimes struggle with putting all of Zend Framework’s pieces together. This week someone asked me how to resolve the error:

Fatal error: Class ‘Zend_Db_Table’ not found.

The answer: he needs to “require” the file containing the Zend_Db_Table class, like so:

require_once 'Zend/Db/Table.php';

or (my preference) use the autoloader:

// ZF 1.8 or later: add these lines to your bootstrap file:
require_once 'Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php';
$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance()->setFallbackAutoloader(true);

ZF isn’t complicated if you know the few things you MUST use. The autoloader is one of them.

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