Zend Controller & Zend View

Excelent review of Zend Controller classes.

Zend Framework team works with gusto on the Zend Framework, great framework for building powerful web-applications in PHP. But too many peoples are confused with its seeming complexity. In this post I will try to explain architecture of most useful part (in my opinion) of Zend Framework - Zend_Controller.

I started discovering of Zend Framework and was confronted with a problem. When IÂ’ve placed my test sample into siteÂ’s subdirectory (http://localhost/test/), default router tried to find TestController which is not exists of course and routed me to IndexController/noRoute. ItÂ’s not good for me. I decided to create my own router.

Like many other PHP developers I’m keeping an eye on the progress of the Zend Framework. It’s currently still in the very early stages of development but is nonetheless worth “getting to know”. These are some notes from a play around with the current View functionality.

Zend_Controller_Plugin is not covered yet in the documentation but it is a powerful way of extending a controller. Briefly, Zend_Controller_Plugin is used for extending controller functionality by attaching listeners to events, which are fired (or trigged) by the controller classes.