I’m instantiating my Fedora class in config.php. I’m still trying to figure out the balance between config.php and bootstrap.php; hopefully the variables defined in config.php are useful outside of the Zend Framework client.

The advantage of using Zend_Cache to cache the Fedora requests is that it is relatively transparent, so in my code the only place you’ll see that I’m even doing caching is:

$fedora = Zend_Cache::factory('Class', 'File', array('cached_entity' => new Fedora_Object(), 'cached_methods' => array('getObjectXML', 'getDatastreamDissemination', 'getDissemination'), 'cache_by_default' => false));


This puts the caching layer over my Fedora class and tells Zend_Cache to cache those three cached methods and pass the rest right through.

Rather than creating those instances everywhere, have you considered some sort of singleton class?

Let me know how things go.

I’m trying to understand how you are using the $fedora object in your bootstrap class. I’d rather create instances of my FedoraSOAPClient class from within various clases within application/models/* and my Controllers. Is this possible? Is this in your bvault code as I can’t seem to see anything in the bootstrap.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chris-beer/bvault/wgbh/annotate/38?file_id=bootstrap.php-20080924210122-b7675owtu9oq690p-10

Would love to look through some more code where yo are using Zend_Cache to cache SOAP queries to Fedora if at all possible.