Autoloading of class in MVC Zend Framework doesnt work

Question

I finished my first web application in MVC zend framework and everything works great on my localhost.

So I upload it on server and there is problem with autoloading my class. I get error message when i wanna create object from my class in indexcontroller:

$this->view->bottomCache = new Application_Model_Cache($this->cacheTime,'bottomCache');

And i get this err msg:

Fatal error: Class 'Application_Model_Cache' not found in ........./IndexController.php on line 19

On my localhost I am using Zend Server CE and there it works.

Please, can you give me some advices, what i would check to get know why it doesnt work?

SOLVED: first letter of name of class has to be uppercase, Cache.php

EDIT2: Folder models vs. model As you can see in this example

// application/models/Guestbook.php

class Application_Model_Guestbook
{

EDIT1: I used tutorial on http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.create-project.html, so i used file structure which is there.

quickstart
|-- application
|   |-- Bootstrap.php
|   |-- configs
|   |   `-- application.ini
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- ErrorController.php
|   |   `-- IndexController.php
|   |-- models
|   |   |-- cache.php
|   |   `-- DbTable
|   |       `-- Downloaded.php
|   `-- views
|       |-- helpers
|       `-- scripts
|           |-- error
|           |   `-- error.phtml
|           `-- index
|               `-- index.phtml
|-- library
|-- public
|   |-- .htaccess
|   `-- index.php

Bootstrap.php In my boot strap i have got:

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
  protected function _initAutoload() {

        $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
                    'namespace' => 'Application_',
                    'basePath' => dirname(__FILE__),
                ));;
        $autoloader->addResourceType('model', 'model/', 'Model');
        return $autoloader;
  }

  protected function _initDoctype()
  {
    $this->bootstrap('view');
    $view = $this->getResource('view');
    $view->doctype('XHTML1_TRANSITIONAL');
  }
}

application.ini

[production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"
appnamespace = "Application"
resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 0
resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts/"
phpSettings.date.timezone = "Europe/London"
resources.db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
resources.db.params.host = localhost
resources.db.params.username = *****
resources.db.params.password = ****
resources.db.params.dbname = *****
resources.db.params.charset = "utf8" 
resources.db.params.names = "utf8" 
resources.view.doctype = "XHTML1_TRANSITIONAL"

[staging : production]

[testing : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1

[development : production]
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 1

Iznogood Iznogood · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-12T19:34:11

Edit2: You have to call your cache.php file Cache.php. Its case sesnsitive. Try that.

Edit: in your structure its a Models (see that s) folder. You invoke the class with

Application_Model_Cache

So ZF is looking for it in application/model/.

So change your class to

Application_Models_Cache

Don`t forget to do it inside the classes code. Or change the folder name to models (seems all your code references models so changing the folder seems the quickest way.

Autoloading of class in MVC Zend Framework doesnt work

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