view/controller help

jrh · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007, 05:49 PM

What is the best way to make calls to different actions in the same page? On my index page I may want to call sayhiAction within that page.

Also, what is the best way to use Zend_View in the case where noViewRenderer = true.

My index controller looks like this, should I extend Zend_View so I don't have to set the script path in every action or is there a better way to do this?

PHP Code:


			
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action

{

    public function indexAction()

    {

        $view = new Zend_View();

        $view->setScriptPath('../application/views/scripts');

        $view->title = "Welcome";

        $view->content = "Hello, World!";

        echo $view->render('main.phtml');

    }

    

    public function redirectAction(){

        $this->_redirect('/');

    }



    public function sayhiAction(){

        return "Hi";

    }

}

Thanks for the help.

jrh · #2 (**permalink**) 12-19-2007, 05:39 PM

I have been able to achieve some of what I would like to do by modifying the action helper in the boot strap (index.php)

PHP Code:


			
$view = new Zend_View();

$viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer');

$viewRenderer->setView($view)

             ->setViewSuffix('phtml')

             ->setNeverController(true)

             ->setScriptAction('main')

             ->setNoRender(true);

My indexController now looks like this

PHP Code:


			
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action

{

    public function indexAction()

    {

        $this->view->title = "Welcome";

        $this->view->content = "Hello, World!";

        $this->render('main');

    }



    public function redirectAction(){

        $this->_redirect('/');

    }

}

So I am rendering main.phtml. I would like to not to have to call $this->render('main'), but when I try to set setNoRender(false) for some reason it tries to render index.phtml even though I set setScriptName('main'). Any suggestions?

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