bootstrap

Bootstrap: In bootstrap you can setting up the database, configuring your view and view helpers, configuring your layouts, registering plugins, registering action helpers, cron job & service srcipt.

/** Include Bootstrap file in public/index.php */

require_once 'Zend/Application.php';

// Create application, bootstrap, and run
$application = new Zend_Application(
    APPLICATION_ENV,
    APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/application.ini'
);
$application->bootstrap()
            ->run();

/** Include Bootstrap file in public/index.php */

 /*in application/bootstrap.php */
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap{}

class Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
    extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract{}

abstract class Zend_Application_Bootstrap_BootstrapAbstract
    implements Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrapper,
               Zend_Application_Bootstrap_ResourceBootstrapper

How to call a function from bootstrap

$bootstrap->bootstrap(array('foo'));

In bootstrap class there should be function with name of _initFoo()