Hi,

as I said somewhere else before : I'm pretty new to the Zend Framework. So, here is another question I have.

Where do I have to put an action helper considering Zend Framework best pratices? At default there is only a helpers path beneath the views path. I guess, that's the place for view helpers only, is it?

What else do I have to beware of, so the helper gets loaded successfullly using $this->_helper->getHelper('MyBeautifulHelper') within the action controller. Any pitfall ?

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A small addition: I'm thinking of an action helper checking in an action controller, whether a user is logged in and may perform some action or not.
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Thanks in advance for your help.

Sebastian

I tend to put any and all classes in the library, be it an action helper, view helper, new base controller, what ever... If its used by more than one module or controller I put it in my library. Follow the ZF naming conventions and Zend_Loader can handle all the loading. If its a view helper and is only needed for this one module then I put it in the module's view/helpers/ path.


library
- Zend
- - ...
- MyLib
- -...

Ok, I see. Thanks for your answer. I tend to seperate files by use, meaning I would put view helpers and action helpers each in it's own folder.

While I somewhat agree with Elemental I tend to separate my lib from my application. Meaning that things that aren't application specific ends up in the lib. Everything else ends up somewhere in the application. That way I end up with a neatly packaged reusable lib.

That being said I also have an application specific lib folder for application specific lib files(obviously).

To answer your question I would create a helper dir in your controller dir (ie /modules/mymodule/controller/helpers/) and drop the helpers there.
To call them you need to add the path tho, $this->_helper->addPath() from your controller for instance. Adding the path could/should be done elsewhere if it's a recurring thing.

That's an excellent idea. You could load the path based on the requested module via a plugin, much as you would a model. See this post for help with the plugin.

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