Perhaps an example will help: http://www.paste2.org/p/80416
As you can see, generatePassword is called in the direct method and so if I
want to generate a new password I can simply call:
$pw = $this->_helper->passwordGenerator();
If there were other methods in this helper that I wanted to access I would
first need to get an instance of the helper with:
$pwGen = $this->_helper->getHelper('PasswordGenerator');
And then I could call any other method of the helper.
$pwGen->someOtherMethod();
Hope that makes more sense.
maxarbos wrote:
>
> But if there is more than one method in that helper, how does it know
> which method to call?
>
> The code I have within my helper class for the direct method is this:
>
> public function direct($method){
> return $this->$method();
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Matthew Lurz wrote:
>>
>> The documentation is correct. The direct method, if implemented in the
>> action helper, will call a specific, default method in the helper. In the
>> case of the FlashMessenger this is the addMessage method. So, calling
>> $this->_helper->FlashMessenger('Some Message') will execute the direct
>> method of the action helper. The direct method then calls addMessage().
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>>
>> maxarbos wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to pass a value to to a specific property inside of a
>>> helper when I use it.
>>>
>>> On page:
>>> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.actionhelpers.html
>>>
>>> In the documentation is says this:
>>>
>>> #Finally, most action helpers implement the method direct() which will
>>> call a specific, default method in the helper. In the example of the
>>> FlashMessenger, it calls addMessage():
>>>
>>> $this->_helper->FlashMessenger('We did something in the last request');
>>>
>>> // shouldnt this last line be:
>>> $this->_helper->FlashMessenger('addMessage'); ?
>>>
>>> How do you get the message you want to add to 'addMessage' to that
>>> method? It would be great to be able to send a valu that is read into
>>> the constructor.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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