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Here’s an easy way to autoload PhpThumb (an excellent & fast image resizing / manipulating PHP library) using Zend Framework without having to modify the PhpThumb source at all. First we need to make our own custom autoloader:

class M_Loader_Autoloader_PhpThumb implements Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Interface {

   static protected $php_thumb_classes = array(
      'PhpThumb'        => 'PhpThumb.inc.php',
      'ThumbBase'       => 'ThumbBase.inc.php',
      'PhpThumbFactory' => 'ThumbLib.inc.php',
      'GdThumb'         => 'GdThumb.inc.php',
      'GdReflectionLib' => 'thumb_plugins/gd_reflection.inc.php',
   );

  /**
   * Autoload a class
   *
   * @param   string $class
   * @return  mixed
   *          False [if unable to load $class]
   *          get_class($class) [if $class is successfully loaded]
   */
   public function autoload($class) {
      $file = APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library/PhpThumb/' . self::$php_thumb_classes[$class];
      if (is_file($file)) {
         require_once($file);
         return $class;
      }
      return false;
   }
}

Then simply put this in your Bootstrap:

Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance()->pushAutoloader(new M_Loader_Autoloader_PhpThumb());

Done. Now you can use PhpThumb in your controllers like this:

class PhotoController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
   public function indexAction() {
      $this->_helper->layout()->disableLayout();
      $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(true);
      $thumb = PhpThumbFactory::create("/path/to/image.jpg");
      $thumb->adaptiveResize(250, 250);
      $thumb->show();
   }
}