Wordpress function.php on ZendFramework CMS

Question

I'm working on a CMS based on Zend Frameowrk and I'm triying to get the mos usefull features from wordpress. One of these is the use of functions.php in the template directory and I think I could do it for my CMS. What about adding a Class in the theme directory (templates/public) and calling (instanciate) it in the bootstrap. What do you think??

Answer 1

This really has little to do with WP. Processing of that file is simple inclusion, I don't see any complexity to it.

Relevant code from WP core:

// Load the functions for the active theme, for both parent and child theme if applicable.
if ( ! defined( 'WP_INSTALLING' ) || 'wp-activate.php' === $pagenow ) {
    if ( TEMPLATEPATH !== STYLESHEETPATH && file_exists( STYLESHEETPATH . '/functions.php' ) )
        include( STYLESHEETPATH . '/functions.php' );
    if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions.php' ) )
        include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions.php' );
}