I am looking to register a reference to the main Database Adapter in the Registry during Bootstrapping so it can be used elsewhere in my site (specifically the Authorisation
My 2 cents...
How to grab the default DB Adapter:
From Bootstrap:
getPluginResource('db');
db = $dbResource->getDbAdapter();
var_dump($db);
?>
From a Controller there are two methods:
getInvokeArg('bootstrap');
$dbResource = $bootstrap->getPluginResource('db');
$dbAdapter = $dbResource->getDbAdapter();
var_dump($dbAdapter);
// Method 2
$dbAdapter = Zend_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter();
var_dump($dbAdapter);
?>