Zend Framework resource autoloading with appnamespace

A few days ago I was having problems getting my models autoloaded by Zend Framewok, after a little research I found the solution.

For this project I am using Zend_Application and Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap for bootstraping my application. Enabling autoloading is as simple as adding this line to application.ini:

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appnamespace = "Application"

or you could add a $_appNamespace property to your bootstrap class:

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class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected $_appNamespace = 'Application';
}

After enabling this namespace some mappings will be created that will allow Zend Framework to autoload your classes correctly. This is a list of the folders the class names prefix and where Zend Framework wil attempt to find that class