In a new post to his blog Brandon Savage takes a quick loook at hos he integrated Propel into a Zend Framework app he’d built to replace an older site.

In his article, Ralph Eggert explains how one could integrate propel to his Zend application. It’s interesting to see how an _autoload php function can be used to automatically load needed classes (propel,or Zend classes) and thus avoid having to explicitly include the propel files in every controller that would need access to the model.

It is very easy to integrate other tools and components into the Zend Framework. I have already shown, how to integrate Smarty as a template engine and the eZ Components to expand the selection of useful components to build your own framework based on the Zend Framework.

Since the Zend Framework is currently (Preview Version 0.1.3) lacking an ORM-Layer (Object Relational Mapping), I want to show you how to integrate Propel. Propel allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and querying data. So Propel can easily take over the model part in a MVC system.