Comments on: NY Thoughts and Zend_View_Helper Notes

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:24:51 +0000

Isn’t it a requirement for all pubs to have Murphy’s Stout on tap?

By: Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:07:07 +0000

I’m not sure why everyone is focusing on the Zend Framework. Clearly, the most important information in this post is where to find Murphy’s Stout on tap.

By: Ben Ramsey

Ben Ramsey — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:22:29 +0000

Matthew:

Thanks for the pointer about the helper prefix. I’ve just implemented it in the init() on this project.

By: PHPDeveloper.org

PHPDeveloper.org — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:11:49 +0000

Ben Ramsey’s Blog: NY Thoughts and Zend_View_Helper Notes…

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By: Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Matthew Weier O'Phinney — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:02:10 +0000

Thanks for the writeup! I’ve created an issue in the ZF issue tracker noting the documentation issues you ran into, and will be clearing them up for an upcoming release.

By the way, you can always modify your view object to specify the helper path and helper prefix quite easily. Right after your call to initView(), try this: $this->view->addHelperPath(dirname(dirname(FILE)) . ’/views/helpers’, ‘My_View_Helper’). This is an approach I’ve taken with a recent project; it’s useful particularly when you have multiple modules that might need similarly named helpers that perform their job differently—for example, a pager for a gallery versus a pager for news items.

By: JIRA: Zend Framework

JIRA: Zend Framework — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:00:05 +0000

[ZF-1246] Helper documentation is unclear…

Per [http://benramsey.com/archives/ny-thoughts-and-zend_view_helper-notes/], the following changes need to be made to the Zend_View_Helper documentation:

Indicate that all helper classes need a class prefix, and that by default it should be Zend_….