James Hargreaves schreef:
Hello
I am trying to implement some functionality via a couple of Controller
Plugins - my requirements are as follows:
1) load custom configuration and make this information available in the view
2) check the input URL contains a language code and re-route to holding page
(where they can select a language) if it does not
Obviously these are two completely separate requirements, hence I would like
to do this using two completely separate plugins.
Anyway, my first question is ... where do I register the plug-in? I am using
the Latest Release of ZF. The index.php generated when I created the project
does not obviously have anywhere to load my plug-ins. So, instead I have
created a new init method in my Bootstrap.php:
protected function _initPlugins() {
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$front->registerPlugin(new MyPlugin());
$front->registerPlugin(new MyOtherPlugin());
}
Is that the right way to do this? If I register the plug-ins this way will
all hooks into the application stack (eg - routeStartup,
dispatchLoopStartup, etc) be available to my plug-in?
Yes, it is the right way to do this, but I don't see why you put it in a
function. Is this inside your bootstrap class? In that case I understand.
Okay, so assuming what I have done above is okay, onto plug-in (1).
I have a configuration file custom.ini that contains, among other things, a
Google Maps API key. I want to make this information available in all views
throughout the application, so I would do something like:
class MyPlugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract {
public function routeStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini('/path/to/config.ini', $this->env);
$this->view->google_maps_api_key = $config->google_maps_api_key;
}
}
I would say Zend_Registry::set('my_config', $config);
and retrieve this whenever you need it as Zend_Registry::get('my_config');
Is that going to work? I am assuming that $this in this context is not
actually the Zend_Application, so $this->env will not yield anything useful,
likewise setting anything on $this->view is not going to make this attribute
available in the view. Is there someway to access the application via $this
- eg - $this->application->env.
Onto plug-in (2). I don't really have any idea how to implement this, but my
initial thoughts are:
I don't have time to read all this, but I think you should be looking at
using a custom route.
$router = $front->getRouter();
$router->addRoute(-your new route-);
-Bart
- http://www.mydomain.com/ should show a holding page, where a language can
be selected
- http://www.mydomain.com/<lang>/ (where <lang> is a two-character language
code such as 'en' or 'de') is the home page for the language-specific
version of the site
- http://www.mydomain.com/<lang>/abc/ is a specific page on the
language-specific site
- the plug-in should check a valid language code is provided in the URL and
redirect accordingly.
- I don't want to provide duplicate controllers for each language, so the
following URLs should use the same controller:
http://www.mydomain.com/en/abc/
http://www.mydomain.com/de/abc/
In each case the view script should be <lang>.phtml, as oppose to the
default index.phtml, so that the language of the page can be easily defined.
The last bit is just thinking outloud. It might be easier to accomplish what
I want by splitting the views by the language at the top level of the
hierarchy - eg:
APPLICATION_PATH/views/scripts/en/abc/index.phtml
As oppose to:
APPLICATION_PATH/views/scripts/abc/en.phtml
I don't really mind either way. But I definitely do not want to duplicate
the controllers.
Anyway, that's what I need to do. Apologies for the lengthy post, but as you
can see there are quite a few issues I need to address, I think mainly
because I am new to ZF and still not fully sure how it all hangs together.
Any help would be appreciated :)
Thanks
Jay
