-- jasonzfw <[email protected]> wrote
(on Friday, 23 January 2009, 01:22 PM -0800):
> beberlei wrote:
> >
> > I would extend Zend_Controller_Action and make an application wide
> > action controller that has the init function which centralizes all the
> > duplicated code.
> >
>
> But I thought the purpose of using an action helper was to avoid exactly
> this, as has been stated earlier in this thread? Extending the
> Zend_Controller_Action is the easiest way to achieve this goal, but articles
> such as
> http://devzone.zend.com/article/3350-Action-Helpers-in-Zend-Framework
> http://devzone.zend.com/article/3350-Action-Helpers-in-Zend-Framework state
> this is not the appropriate approach.
>
> Basically I'm under the impression I can call this action helper statically
> within the bootstrap.php file, like so:
>
> $initStuff =
> Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('InitializeStuff');
>
> From there, it seems there should be some way to make certain variables
> available in each controller's $this scope, perhaps using a callback within
> the action helper. However this is the part of the puzzle that continues to
> escape me.
Within your action helper's init() or preDispatch() method, do something
like this:
$controller = $this->getActionController();
$controller->foo = 'bar';
This will set the public 'foo' property of the current action controller
to the value 'bar'. We actually do this with the ViewRenderer to set the
'view' property.
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
