On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jerome Covington <jeromecovington@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > I was specifically curious if there are frameworks which use the convention > of passing config objects to functions/methods in the same way that > contemporary JS libraries like jQuery do. We use Zend Framework along with its MVC framework. In the Bootstrap class initialized from index.php we load an INI file into a Zend_Config object which parses it into a hierarchical array, and store the config in the Zend_Registry--essentially making it a global variable (Singleton pattern). Instead of passing it around to the objects that need it, each class accesses it directly from the registry. While this couples these classes to the registry, it makes the code simpler. Were I to write it from scratch, I would have created a helper object that passes the config object to each controller as it's created, whether it needed it or not. That would make one class (the helper) dependent on the registry instead of every controller that accesses the config object. David
