-- majelbstoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Sunday, 09 March 2008, 06:28 AM -0700):
> Quick question about view helpers - couldn't find the answer having
> searched, so here goes. I'm using the standard module based directory tree.
> However, I have a number of view helpers that are shared between the
> modules, so it doesn't make sense to put them in module/xxx/view/helpers.
>
> Where can I put them, and what steps do I need to take so that they
> *autoload* when I call $this->myHelper() from index.phtml?
>
> I tried the following so far:
> 1. I put all my helpers in /lib/My/View/Helper/ , with appropriate
> classnames.
> 2. In a common parent controller class, I add:
>
> $this->view->addHelperPath(Zend_Registry::get('applicationDir')
> . '/lib',
> 'My_View_Helper');
You need the full path to the helpers:
Zend_Registry::get('applicationDir') . '/lib/My/View/Helper'
otherwise, it would be looking for them in just your lib dir, and would
not find them.
> so that all the controllers have access to them.
> 3. the /lib/ directory is already in my include path, so that classes can
> be autoloaded.
>
> There are no problems finding the right file in the path. However, the
> class isn't loaded from the file, because
> Zend_View_Controller_Abstract::loadClass() calls class_exists($class,
> false). If it called class_exists($class, true), there wouldn't be an
> issue. (Why don't we want to autoload here, by the way?)
>
> I'd like to avoid centralised loading of helpers because some of them will
> be redundant on most pages. I'd also like to avoid writing include_once or
> Zend_Loader all over the place for maintenance and tidiness reasons.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated,
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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