Introducing Zend View Helpers
February 25th, 2009This video covers how to setup and user Zend View Helpers. I also cover how state is managed within the class. Next week I’ll show you how you can use this technique with a bit of AJAX to make those View Helpers shine! I’ll post the project code for both videos with part 2.
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Hi,
very very well done webcasts. Love them.
Im struggling with a problem though:
I have a helper that should show the usual “Welcome Guest!” or “Logged in as [user]” in my application. The problem is that I need to pass the identity object to the helper before it is being used in the layout. In other words, I have no idea how to “initialize” my helper so that it knows who is or is not currently logged in.
Thanks a bunch.
I’ll be glad to know the answer.
Hi Slavic, I think a singleton strategy would work for this, where you create a class that “owns” that little bit of data. Ideally it would be connected to Zend_Acl and you could just query Zend_Acl’s methods to get the answer for who’s logged in. I did an example like this a couple months back. Hope that helps!
Hi Jon,
thanks – I don’t yet use Zend_Acl, I use only Zend_Auth so i might need to read first about the acl features.
However, I fixed my problem by accessing Zend_Auth in the very view helper class, which I think is pretty much what you meant.
Thanks again.
Hey jon!
Can you explain why are you not putting helper files under application/views/helpers?
I tried to follow you with that folder structure, but just ended up with bunch of errors.
I ended up puting Notice.php in application/views/helpers folder and calling that class Zend_View_Helper_Notice and i managed to get everything to work.
Thanks for these screencasts!