When building applications with ZF I have recently stumbled upon situations where I need the same functionality both from views and actions controllers.
Not necessarily by the same action/view pair mind you.

What I've done up until now is create one action helper and one view helper with exactly the same functionality. It doesn't take a fortune teller to see that this may quickly get out of hand, not to mention that it is a bad practice to have duplicate code lying around.

So to my question then. What would be the best practice in this situation? What is your solution?

The way I see it I could do one of two things:
1) Make the view helper inherit the action helper
2) Utilize the action helper in the controller and then pass the result to the view.

There are cases when #2 wouldn't really be practical. So I'm guessing #1 is preferred but I'd still like to hear your thoughts on this.

// Leif