In several places you see this example:

$options['nestSeparator'] = ':'; $config = new Zend_Config_Ini('/path/to/config.ini', 'staging', $options);

Followed by this example ini code:

; Production site configuration data [production] webhost = www.example.com database.adapter = pdo_mysql database.params.host = db.example.com database.params.username = dbuser database.params.password = secret database.params.dbname = dbname

However, when the user follows this example literally, the resulting $config object is not correctly populated. For instance:

echo $config->database->params->host

Results in Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in

Changing the nestSeparator character to a dot (which is the character used in the ini sample above, results in a correctly populated config object.

This is prevelant in these pages:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/…

For new users this could be very frustrating and lead them to believe it's a bug in Zend code.