Hi,

I am currently developing under Mac OS X 10.5 with: MySQL 5.0.41 Apache 2.0.59 PHP 5.2.3

I am holding my connection details to the database in a config.xml (works) and opening a connection (it's PDO_MYSQL and was working in manual tests) via a bootstrap file.

$db = Zend_Db::factory($config->database->type, $config->database->toArray());
Zend_Db_Table::setDefaultAdapter($db);

My model looks like this:

<?php
class Forum extends Zend_Db_Table 
{
    protected $_name = 'forum';
}
?>

My controller is like this:

<?php
 class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
 {
    public function init()
    {
        $this->view->baseUrl = $this->_request->getBaseUrl();
        Zend_Loader::loadClass('Forum');
    }
    
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->view->title = "Index";
        
        $forum = new Forum();
        $this->view->forums = $forum->fetchAll();   
    }
 }
?>

This results in

Fatal error: Call to a member function describeTable() on a non-object in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Zend/Db/Table/Abstract.php on line 595

A dump of $db in the bootstrap file:

object(Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mysql)#16 (9) {
  ["_pdoType:protected"] => string(5) "mysql"
  ["_numericDataTypes:protected"] => array(16) {
    [0] => int(0)
    [1] => int(1)
    [2] => int(2)
    ["INT"] => int(0)
    ["INTEGER"] => int(0)
    ["MEDIUMINT"] => int(0)
    ["SMALLINT"] => int(0)
    ["TINYINT"] => int(0)
    ["BIGINT"] => int(1)
    ["SERIAL"] => int(1)
    ["DEC"] => int(2)
    ["DECIMAL"] => int(2)
    ["DOUBLE"] => int(2)
    ["DOUBLE PRECISION"] => int(2)
    ["FIXED"] => int(2)
    ["FLOAT"] => int(2)
  }
  ["_config:protected"] => array(7) {
    ["type"] => string(9) "PDO_MYSQL"
    ["host"] => string(9) "localhost"
    ["username"] => string(11) "root"
    ["password"] => string(10) "****"
    ["dbname"] => string(13) "renaissance_1"
    ["options"] => array(2) {
      ["caseFolding"] => int(0)
      ["autoQuoteIdentifiers"] => bool(true)
    }
    ["driver_options"] => array(0) {
    }
  }
  ["_fetchMode:protected"] => int(2)
  ["_profiler:protected"] => object(Zend_Db_Profiler)#20 (4) {
    ["_queryProfiles:protected"] => array(0) {
    }
    ["_enabled:protected"] => bool(false)
    ["_filterElapsedSecs:protected"] => NULL
    ["_filterTypes:protected"] => NULL
  }
  ["_defaultProfilerClass:protected"] => string(16) "Zend_Db_Profiler"
  ["_connection:protected"] => NULL
  ["_caseFolding:protected"] => int(0)
  ["_autoQuoteIdentifiers:protected"] => bool(true)
}

I can reproduce this error developing under Mac OS X 10.5 and Windows XP Professional SP2 (xampplite) with both Zend Framework 1.0.3 and the SVN trunk version.

Please contact me for further information.