Thanks a million Matthew. I will study this until I attain enlightenment.
I have a very common scenario where ordinary users can look but only admins
can touch. Everyone can "view" this data so I want but one
view.phtmlscript, as in DRY. So another way to pose the question is,
what's the Best
Practice for this? Meanwhile, thank you again.
On Jan 4, 2008 12:57 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -- David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 04 January 2008, 12:39 PM -0500):
> > I know this has been asked and asked, and I have read the docs ad
> nauseum,
> > but... will someone please put me out of my misery and spoon-feed me
> because I
> > am still totally confused.
> >
> > Suppose you have different controllers and different modules and you
> want them
> > to render the same view script?
> >
> > That is, I need thisModule/thisController/thisAction and thatModule/
> > thatController/thatAction both to render this.phtml, which is located in
> the
> > conventional place relative to thisModule. Thus, in
> thisModule/thisController
> >
> > function thisAction() {
> > // works fine; this.phtml is autorendered
> > }
> >
> >
> > but in thatModule/thatController...
> >
> > function thatAction() {
> > // how to render
> /path/to/app/thisModule/views/scripts/thisController/
> > view.phtml ???
> > }
>
> First, you'll need to add the view script path for the 'thisModule'
> module:
>
> $thisModuleDir =
> Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getControllerDirectory('thisModule');
> $this->view->addBasePath(dirname($thisModuleDir) . '/views');
>
> Once you've done that, to render the particular view script:
>
>
> $this->_helper->viewRenderer->renderScript('thisController/view.phtml');
>
> You may also want to investigate moving the common functionality out to
> a partial, which each view script could then acces. This way, you don't
> have to jump through any hoops to access it -- just specify the module
> as a parameter to the partial call.
>
> Use this directory structure:
> thisModule/
> views/
> scripts/
> common.phtml
> thisController/
> this.phtml
> thatModule/
> views/
> scripts/
> thatController/
> that.phtml
>
> Then, in thisModule/views/scripts/thisController/this.phtml:
>
> <?= $this->partial('common.phtml') ?>
>
> and in thatModule/views/scripts/thatController/that.phtml:
>
> <?= $this->partial('common.phtml', 'thisModule');
>
> If you have variables necessary to the script, simply pass them in:
>
> <!-- in thisModule, thisController/this.phtml: -->
> <?= $this->partial('common.phtml', $this->commonVars) ?>
>
> <!-- in thatModule, thatController/that.phtml: -->
> <?= $this->partial('common.phtml', 'thisModule', $this->commonVars) ?>
>
> Of course, partials are only in SVN currently. You can do similarly
> using regular render() calls -- just make sure you have a common view
> script path defined in your bootstrap so that both have access to the
> view script. Let me know if you need help with that.
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> PHP Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
>
--
David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/
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