I've created a helper module (Navigation.php) that will read some data from a database and return it. So I created the helper, and placed it in its proper place in my directory structure:
So in my bootstrap.php file I've tried to add the path to my project like so:
Then, inside my controllers I try to get the helper like so:
Needless to say, there's an issue somewhere. When I visit my site, it claims that it can't find "Navigation" as a helper. I've tried almost every possible variation of the getHelper() I can including:
Navigation
Navigation.php
EHS/Helpers/Navigation

I've also tried changing the directory structure to be Ehs/Helpers and that didn't help.

Is there something I'm missing? I've got this set up the exact same way in another project (running off the same server) and yet one works and this one doesn't. Anyone have any ideas?

Okay, so I traced this down a bit. For whatever reason, Zend_Loader::isReadable() uses the fopen() call which looks in the include_path; however, not all of the directories are searched in. I have my include path set properly as:
Yet if I remove the "@" from the fopen() file, I only see two real errors. It's looking in the directory I ask for "EHS/Helpers/Navigation.php", and in the Zend/Controllers/Action dir for Navigation.php

So now I have to figure out why my include_path seems to not be searched.....

Turns out it was an open_basedir restriction that was hidden.