Master / Slave switch in the Zend Framework application layer

Question

I am writing an application which requires the Master/Slave switch to happen inside the application layer. As it is right now, I instantiate a Zend_Db_Table object on creati

Answer 1

How about something like a base class that you extend which performs the startup?

class My_Db_Table extends Zend_Db_Table
{
    function init() 
    {
        if (....) {
           // set the default adaptor to the write-DB-master
        }
        parent::init();
    }
}
// all your models then extend My_Db_Table instead of Zend_Db_Table