Little help with headTitle()

[risoknop]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and also to Zend Framework. I've been writing PHP code for more than 2 years already so I'm not a complete newbie.

I'm stll just trying to get used to ZF (have been playing with it just for a couple of weeks).

What I want to achieve is, in the bootstrap file, to set the title of the pages to be like this:

Some title - controller - action

Where "controller" should be name of current controller and "action" name of current action. I don't know how to get current controller and action names though.

Thank you for your help

This is how my bootstrap file looks like:

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<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); // crucial for development environment, goes away in production

defined('APPLICATION_PATH')
or define('APPLICATION_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));
defined('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT')
or define('APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT', 'development');

Zend_Session::start();

$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$frontController->setControllerDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/controllers');
$frontController->setParam('env', APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT);

Zend_Layout::startMvc(APPLICATION_PATH . '/layouts/scripts');
$view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
$view->headTitle('Zend'); // HERE I NEED YOUR HELP

$configuration = new Zend_Config_Ini(
APPLICATION_PATH . '/config/app.ini',
APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT
);

$dbAdapter = Zend_Db::factory($configuration->database);
Zend_Db_Table_Abstract::setDefaultAdapter($dbAdapt er);

$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
$registry->configuration = $configuration;
$registry->dbAdapter = $dbAdapter;

unset($frontController, $view, $configuration, $registry, $dbAdapter);
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[Tekerson]

I don't think you will be able to achieve this in the bootstrap as the routing hasn't been done at this point so the controller and action aren't decided on.
I think the cleanest way to achieve this would be with a controller plugin. So you can retrieve the controller and action names from the request object.

[Eugen]

ye, you cant do that in bootstrap..
you can
a) make controller plugin my_controller_plugin extends zend_controller_plugin_abstract
b) make base class my_controller action extends zend_controller_action
c) make a view helper
d) you can copy/paste code in every controller but u can see whats wrong with that approach
e) im sure there are at least 2-3 more thing you can try

but they all come to same idea: you need to access zend_controller_request object and then you can use its getModuleName(), getControllerName() and getActionName() methods witch will return requested names..

Zend Framework: Documentation

[risoknop]

Thank you for help

I will probably create a view helper.

Btw, is there any good tutorial on how to create a controller plugin?

[Tekerson]

They are pretty straightforward, and the docs (Zend Framework: Documentation) are pretty good.


Front Controller Plugins in Zend Framework is also quite a good introduction (Google is your friend)