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It’s occasionally useful to be able to share MVC classes between applications on the same system. If you want the same controller in both applications, you can use CakePHP’s bootstrap.php to bring these additional classes into view.

In bootstrap.php, define some specially-named variables to make CakePHP aware of other places to look for MVC classes:

App::build(array(
    'plugins' => array('/full/path/to/plugins/', '/next/full/path/to/plugins/'),
    'models' =>  array('/full/path/to/models/', '/next/full/path/to/models/'),
    'views' => array('/full/path/to/views/', '/next/full/path/to/views/'),
    'controllers' => array('/full/path/to/controllers/', '/next/full/path/to/controllers/'),
    'datasources' => array('/full/path/to/datasources/', '/next/full/path/to/datasources/'),
    'behaviors' => array('/full/path/to/behaviors/', '/next/full/path/to/behaviors/'),
    'components' => array('/full/path/to/components/', '/next/full/path/to/components/'),
    'helpers' => array('/full/path/to/helpers/', '/next/full/path/to/helpers/'),
    'vendors' => array('/full/path/to/vendors/', '/next/full/path/to/vendors/'),
    'shells' => array('/full/path/to/shells/', '/next/full/path/to/shells/'),
    'locales' => array('/full/path/to/locale/', '/next/full/path/to/locale/')
));

1. App::build(array(
2. 'plugins' => array('/full/path/to/plugins/', '/next/full/path/to/plugins/'),
3. 'models' => array('/full/path/to/models/', '/next/full/path/to/models/'),
4. 'views' => array('/full/path/to/views/', '/next/full/path/to/views/'),
5. 'controllers' => array('/full/path/to/controllers/', '/next/full/path/to/controllers/'),
6. 'datasources' => array('/full/path/to/datasources/', '/next/full/path/to/datasources/'),
7. 'behaviors' => array('/full/path/to/behaviors/', '/next/full/path/to/behaviors/'),
8. 'components' => array('/full/path/to/components/', '/next/full/path/to/components/'),
9. 'helpers' => array('/full/path/to/helpers/', '/next/full/path/to/helpers/'),
10. 'vendors' => array('/full/path/to/vendors/', '/next/full/path/to/vendors/'),
11. 'shells' => array('/full/path/to/shells/', '/next/full/path/to/shells/'),
12. 'locales' => array('/full/path/to/locale/', '/next/full/path/to/locale/')
13. ));

Also changed is the order in which boostrapping occurs. In the past app/config/core.php was loaded after app/config/bootstrap.php. This caused any App::import() in an application bootstrap to be un-cached and considerably slower than a cached include. In 1.3 core.php is loaded and the core cache configs are created before bootstrap.php is loaded.

It’s occasionally useful to be able to share MVC classes between applications on the same system. If you want the same controller in both applications, you can use CakePHP’s bootstrap.php to bring these additional classes into view.

In bootstrap.php, define some specially-named variables to make CakePHP aware of other places to look for MVC classes:

App::build(array(
    'plugins' => array('/full/path/to/plugins/', '/next/full/path/to/plugins/'),
    'models' =>  array('/full/path/to/models/', '/next/full/path/to/models/'),
    'views' => array('/full/path/to/views/', '/next/full/path/to/views/'),
    'controllers' => array('/full/path/to/controllers/', '/next/full/path/to/controllers/'),
    'datasources' => array('/full/path/to/datasources/', '/next/full/path/to/datasources/'),
    'behaviors' => array('/full/path/to/behaviors/', '/next/full/path/to/behaviors/'),
    'components' => array('/full/path/to/components/', '/next/full/path/to/components/'),
    'helpers' => array('/full/path/to/helpers/', '/next/full/path/to/helpers/'),
    'vendors' => array('/full/path/to/vendors/', '/next/full/path/to/vendors/'),
    'shells' => array('/full/path/to/shells/', '/next/full/path/to/shells/'),
    'locales' => array('/full/path/to/locale/', '/next/full/path/to/locale/'),
    'libs' => array('/full/path/to/libs/', '/next/full/path/to/libs/')
));

1. App::build(array(
2. 'plugins' => array('/full/path/to/plugins/', '/next/full/path/to/plugins/'),
3. 'models' => array('/full/path/to/models/', '/next/full/path/to/models/'),
4. 'views' => array('/full/path/to/views/', '/next/full/path/to/views/'),
5. 'controllers' => array('/full/path/to/controllers/', '/next/full/path/to/controllers/'),
6. 'datasources' => array('/full/path/to/datasources/', '/next/full/path/to/datasources/'),
7. 'behaviors' => array('/full/path/to/behaviors/', '/next/full/path/to/behaviors/'),
8. 'components' => array('/full/path/to/components/', '/next/full/path/to/components/'),
9. 'helpers' => array('/full/path/to/helpers/', '/next/full/path/to/helpers/'),
10. 'vendors' => array('/full/path/to/vendors/', '/next/full/path/to/vendors/'),
11. 'shells' => array('/full/path/to/shells/', '/next/full/path/to/shells/'),
12. 'locales' => array('/full/path/to/locale/', '/next/full/path/to/locale/'),
13. 'libs' => array('/full/path/to/libs/', '/next/full/path/to/libs/')
14. ));

Also changed is the order in which boostrapping occurs. In the past app/config/core.php was loaded after app/config/bootstrap.php. This caused any App::import() in an application bootstrap to be un-cached and considerably slower than a cached include. In 1.3 core.php is loaded and the core cache configs are created before bootstrap.php is loaded.