Complex Views with the Zend Framework - Part 2: View Helper Pattern

Title: Complex Views with the Zend Framework - Part 2: View Helper Pattern Category: Zend Controller & Zend View Clicks: 909 Listing added: Apr 29, 2007 PageRank: Not available

Part two of my ongoing look at the View layer of the Zend Framework turns its attention to the topic of View Helpers. The Zend Framework manual provides a fairly narrow definition of its helpers which indicates they enable complex tasks, like generating form elements, to be extracted out of views into dedicated helpers. Here I'll try to explain in greater depth the View Helper pattern which is another of those patterns in the J2EE catalog, and which adds to the range of tasks View Helpers are capable of performing.

Author:	Pádraic Brady
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