Matthew, thank you for your hard work and prompt responses. Here a few lines
on my experience so far:
I am pretty new to ZF and MVC. On top of that I want to implement Smarty as
the template engine. Been spending a few days on reading the documentation,
what I could find on the Internet and playing around with the zfdemo code.
Still don't get the whole picture but it makes more and more sense. Figure
it will take me another few days of playing around to understand it a bit
more.
Managed to get some views working through piecing together code pieces from
several tutorials and the zfdemo app. I followed the emails in the last few
weeks, so I knew that there were some changes that are not compatible.
That's why I upgraded today to 1.0.
This broke my setup with the Smarty view, injecting templates out of a
template directory. Since I am still not very proficient in debugging the ZF
and I had $frontController->throwExceptions(true) set, I didn't get the
error message that it didn't find 'index/index.phtml'. It took me a few
hours to figure it out and I am thinking about my potential new structure.
Besides the above, I had to change my smarty view to use "extends
Zend_View_Abstract" instead of "implements Zend_View_Interface" which
required me to declare the "_run" method.
For now till I have my new template structure, I managed to bypass the auto
view settings by using the following lines of code;
$viewRenderer = new
Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer($view);
$viewRenderer->setViewBasePathSpec($tmplPath)
->setViewScriptPathSpec('landing.tpl')
->setViewScriptPathNoControllerSpec('landing.tpl')
->setViewSuffix('tpl');
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);
//Zend_View_Controller_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);
NOTE:
=====
-->The sample code at
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.actionhelpers.html#zend.controller.actionhelpers.viewrenderer(paragraph
7.9) wants you to implement
Zend_View_Controller_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);. However, I
didn't find a HelperBroker there. Seems to be the
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker that is meant there.
Your changes make sense and should make the default setup easier. I will try
to implement it as close as possible to be open for future refactoring.
That's why I didn't use the
$front->setParam('noErrorHandler', true);
If I understand it correctly, that should have solved my problem without
changes. A good read for it is the migration page (
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.migration.html#zend.controller.migration.fromzeroninethree
)
Hope these lines help some other users to figure it out a bit earlier and
for you to understand the issues ZF newbies may face.
Gunter
