Comments on: Introducing Zend View Helpers

By: Steve Davies

Steve Davies — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:02:56 +0000

hi,

Can anyone tell me where the link for part 2 to this tutorial is?

Cheers,
Steve

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:31:06 +0000

Why are you creating html in a string. I thought MVC practices dictated that html is only generated in views .phtml files.

Are view helpers an exception to this where it’s best practice to embed html in a string? If so how much html should you embed in strings in the helper and at what point do you move that html to a .phtml view?

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:02:40 +0000

for those of you who get application error enter this in the production part of the application.ini file:

resources.view.helperPath.App_View_Helper = “App/View/Helper”
resources.view.helperPathPrefix.App_View_Helper = “App_View_Helper”

By: joddy street

joddy street — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:15:31 +0000

The Site Looks amazing !! Great touch-up Jon

By: knodumi

knodumi — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:30:29 +0000

I added this to action. don’t know that it’s a proper way, but it works
$this->_helper->json($bookList->toArray());
thanks again for this series

By: knodumi

knodumi — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:26:14 +0000

another great tutorial, Thanks a lot. I tried this with jquery autocomplete “Custom data and display” example (only to get key/value feature)which shown in http://bit.ly/addWR0 to get key/value selection. First I tried it simply on form with static array.It worked

$formElement->setJQueryParams(array(‘source’ => array(
array(‘value’=>’NY’,'label’=>’New York’),
array(‘value’=>’BLN’,'label’=>’Berlin’),
array(‘value’=>’BTN’,'label’=>’Boston’)
)));

Then I tried with dynamic data with databases. In here I implement an array of arrays (value=>, label=>) and I add this to form element

$formElement->setJQueryParam(‘source’,'/admin/book/book-list’); //the url to get array object

but I don’t know how to send the array of arrays (value=>, label=>) as ajax response via json from action file.

I wrote this on action, but it not worked
$this->_helper->json(array_values($bookList));

I will be glad if anyone can help to fix this to me.

thanks again for zendcasts series, It’s really helpful to me

By: Rafa

Rafa — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:43:52 +0000

Hi there!
Nice screencast! Just one question. I’ve tried to use JQuery controls into layouts (not in the view scripts) but I don’t know why it doesn’t work. Could anybody help me with that?

Thanks a lot

By: Jonno

Jonno — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:21:20 +0000

Jon rocks my socks!

By: GaVrA

GaVrA — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:32:36 +0000

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!

By: Slavic

Slavic — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:17:16 +0000

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.

By: jon

jon — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:43:52 +0000

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!

By: Slavic

Slavic — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:13:52 +0000

I’ll be glad to know the answer.

By: Slavic

Slavic — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:12:01 +0000

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.

By: andrew bogucki

andrew bogucki — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:00:27 +0000

Your article is very usefulness. Can you please post some additional information about this? take care