Hi, I'm looking for a quick tutorial on subclassing the action controller. The docs (Zend Framework: Documentation) don't say very much about it.

Basically, I'm realizing I'm repeating a bit of code every time I create a new controller. I would like to include the following function in the base controller that extends the zend_controller_action which I could then extend it with my normal page controllers.

For example, I would like all of my controllers to have the following function:

public function init()
{
$this->view->baseUrl = $this->_request->getBaseUrl();
}

Thanks!

Here's the basic BaseController
Here's your other controllers extending BaseController:
This should get you started.

Thanks Xentek for the help. I'm hoping you don't mind lending your expertise once again. Over in this thread I had some issues with pathing. And I thought they were solved. Here's issue:

I currently have the following structure:

/library/Erik/controllers
/library/Erik/forms
/library/Zend/

In my indexAction, I am able to require_once 'form/myNewForm' without any issues. However, when I attempt to require_once 'controllers/BaseControllers/ PHP throws an error (can't find the file). Any ideas...it's maddening!

I was able to get the controller loaded, but I'm still not completely understanding the pathing issue. I'm having another developer take a look at the issue for me this afternoon, so I'll post an update when I have one.

Do you want to try registerAuotLoad() in Zend?? In this way you dun need to require classes yourself manually.

I've tried that and it works, but I'm still learning and didn't want to depend on it in hopes it would always work.

Well, naming your application directory "library" seems like a bad start, as one could take that to mean that the directory actually houses the thing that most resembles a library, that is, the Zend Framework. It also sounds like you're having simple include_path issues. Basically you need to have an entry in your include_path for every directory you're going to be including files from, or just use the path when actually including the file.

PHP: Description of core php.ini directives - Manual
PHP: set_include_path - Manual

My understanding is that he WAS referring to the library directory not the application directory. notice he also included '/library/Zend/'

@ehalber

I agree with KMG... I think you may want to rethink your dir structure and check out the autoLoader. The only thing I'm putting my library directory, besides Zend is other third-party libraries I'm using.

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