-- Bart McLeod <[email protected]> wrote
(on Thursday, 08 January 2009, 10:26 AM +0100):
> You can of course have a base custom controller, but you do not need to.
>
> Depending on what you need exactly you can use either an action helper in the
> init method or a plugin or both a plugin and an action helper.
Also, you can create an action helper that has an init() or
preDispatch() method, and register it in your bootstrap. This is a nice
way to build code that can be re-used across controllers without needing
a custom base controller (as action helpers have introspection to the
current controller).
> public function init(){
> $this->_helper->myInit(); //instead of your six lines of code
> }
>
> Bart
>
> Giuliano Riccio schreef:
>
> You can make a custom controller to make all the others... something like
> this:
>
> class My_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action
> {
> public function init()
> {
> // your common code
> }
> }
>
> Then you will use it like this:
>
> class IndexController extends My_Controller_Action
> {
> // optional function to use to add more stuff to the default init
> public function init()
> {
> // some code
> parent::init(); // use this anywhere inside this function to
> call the default init
> // some code
> }
> }
>
> Hope it helps ;)
>
> Giuliano
>
> jasonzfw wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Been using the ZFW for a few weeks now, and love it. I have a pretty
> good
> grasp on the key features, however there's one obstacle I can't seem
> to
> surpass. My site is broken into about 7 different controllers, and I
> store
> all configuration data in config.ini.
>
> Currently within each controller init() method I redundantly include
> the
> same 5-6 lines of code which perform various calculations, such as
> determining the number of registered users. This information is
> subsequently displayed within the page header. For instance, you'll
> find
> this line within each of my controllers' init() methods:
>
> $this->view->totalUsers = $user->getUserCount();
>
> (obviously this data is cached using Zend_Cache, I'm just keeping it
> simple here)
>
> For that matter, several of my controller actions use config.ini
> parameters, so the following line is currently found in every
> controllers'
> init() method:
>
> $this->config = Zend_Registry::get('config');
>
> I've seemingly tried everything, including creating a custom front
> controller plugin and defining a preDispatch() method. However the
> variable scope seems limited to that method, as I'm unable to retrieve
> $this->config within my controllers.
>
> Surely there's a recommended way to manage these lines of code in a
> single
> location? While this works, I'd much rather avoid having to
> redundantly
> maintain the same lines of code in each controller action.
>
> Thank you!
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
