Zend Controller & Zend View

Part of what I love about the Zend Framework is the ease at which a person can create views for static content.

In the previous article I introduced a method to describe routing information within a configuration file built specially for the Zend_Config object. The example code I gave was done in XML, but itÂ’s worth reiterating that the same can be done with an INI file or a file containing a PHP array.
Now IÂ’d like to extend the Zend_Controller_Front class to automate the retrieval and use of the configuration settings we capture in our Zend_Config object. WeÂ’ll use the Zend_Config object to create and build out a Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter object. Once weÂ’re done, weÂ’ll simply set it to our front controller like normal (almost), and dispatch our HTTP request.

So, this all started as I read about the Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter class. While building my own framework, routing was a particularly sticky issue to iron out, so I wanted to see how Zend handled the whole issue. And they did in a fine way, apparently somewhat borrowed from Ruby On Rails

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.