I have touched on this in the past.. I think the only reason I have not
put together a component proposal is that it requires finalization of a
few things..
This component, when done right, would be a helper to
Zend_Controller_Action and a helper of Zend_View (>_Helper) and would
consume Zend_Session.
I think we are getting real close to finializing zend_session as you can
see in aother thread, we are simply at a point where the community is
weighing in on the public facing API.
I imagine after 1.0 of the ZendFramework you will be able to see more
'decorator' type components that either tie in or consume multiple
components in the framework..
In the meantime, you can use my static- standalone class as its what I
use everyday:
http://svn.ralphschindler.com/repo/ZendFramework/library/
It currently uses Zend_Session, also implementing countable, iteratable
interface. I use it to add messages in my controllers, and also to
retrieve messages in my view scripts.
FlashMessage::add($message);
if (FlashMessage::hasMessages()) {
$messages = FlashMessage::getMessages();
foreach ($messages as $message) { echo $message; }
}
It also supports namespacing so that multiple components can use
FlashMessage and keep their messages separated, this is good if you know
certain (named) messages will have to be directed to a specific part of
the view.
cheers,
ralph
Andrew Yager wrote:
On 28/01/2007, at 9:26 PM, Ralf Eggert wrote:
[snip]
Hope this helps and if someone thinks I forgot anything please add your
comments...
The only other comment that I'd make is it appears that the flash stuff
does a bit of Session magic - essentially it's storing a message in a
session, and clearing it at the end of the next action.
This behavior should be easy to duplicate by registering a session
object (perhaps in the 'flash' namespace?) and at the end of every
action (perhaps by overriding the default action controller) clearing
out the namespace of all variables that were there at the start... or
something like that... (you'd need to be a bit smart about it and make
sure you didn't clear notifications that had changed for instance...)
Andrew
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