Yes, you should avoid global variables (and global variable work-arounds) wherever possible. It creates unnecessary dependencies and can make testing harder.
Granted, Zend_Registry could easily be mocked for testing, it's not really ideal. sinkingfish wrote: > > Thanks for the rapid reply, > > I thought the registry was more for things like static values, ie configs > & db connections. > > > Jan Pieper-2 wrote: >> >> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.registry.html >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: sinkingfish [mailto:sinkingf...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:24 PM >>> To: fw-general@lists.zend.com >>> Subject: [fw-general] Passing an object between actions. >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am looking to pass an object (zend_form to be exact) >>> between 2 actions and >>> am wondering is there a best practice or even a facility in >>> zend framework? >>> >>> I'm considering 3 ways : >>> 1. make the object a class variable and access using $this >>> 2. Serialize the the object and pass it as an a parameter in >>> the _forward() >>> method. >>> 3. make it a global variable. >>> >>> Just wondering did anybody have any thoughts on this. >>> >>> Brian >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Passing-an-object-between-actions.-tp209 >>> 60215p20960215.html >>> Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> > > ----- Regards, A.J. Brown Zend Certified PHP Engineer http://ajbrown.me -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Passing-an-object-between-actions.-tp20960215p20984490.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
