Hi Joshua, There's a way! The hole Zend MVC is sometimes a bit hard to understand (I had a pretty hard time to get into it).
I think you can do in you bootstrap like this: $view = new Trevi_View(); $viewRenderer = new Trevi_Controller_Helper_ViewRenderer(); $viewRenderer->setViewBasePathSpec(dirname) ->setViewScriptPathSpec('/:module/:controller/:action.:suffix') ->setView($view); So it still instance Zend_View and you replace it. But I think you can leave with that (at least we can). Cheers, Leo P.S.: Use fw-mvc for MVC related questions (at least I read more carfull there). -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Joshua Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. August 2007 21:08 An: fw-general@lists.zend.com Cc: Mitch Penrod Betreff: [fw-general] Subclassing Zend_View and instancing in initView(); Hello, long time lurker first time poster =) I am having some issues getting the ball rolling with Zend Framework. We have decided to use our own *_Controller_Action that extends Zend_Controller_Action and in our *_Controller_Action I want to override initView() to instance our own view object that extends Zend_View. Unfortunately there is no way to have Zend_Controller_Action::initView() instance anything other than Zend_View without overriding it in my *_Controller_Action class and duplicating its functionality. What would be really nice is if Zend_Controller_Action had a protected property for the name of the view class to instance, then in your own controller you could override the default class name: Example: abstract class Zend_Controller_Action { protected $view_class = 'Zend_View'; //..... public function initView() { //..... $this->view = new $this->view_class(array('basePath' => $baseDir)); //..... } } abstract class Foo_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action { protected $view_class = 'Foo_View'; } Am I missing the boat here? Is there an easier way to tell the framework to instance a different view using a dynamic basePath by default without having to explicitly do it in each action controller? Joshua Johnston Sr. Software Engineer, MailWise, LLC Main: 617-267-0044 Fax: 617-267-0055 Direct: 617-933-5817 Cellular: 617-697-7521 [EMAIL PROTECTED]