Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-19 Thread Marko Korhonen
Ok, done. Now I have converted most of the methods in my base controllers as action helpers, plugins or just moved them to views. I have the final challenge: I declare "blocks" to my sidebar with my new action helper "Block". Example, $this->_helper->block($block, "left_sidebar", 0); // render

Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Marko Korhonen wrote (on Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 06:52 AM -0800): > > Thanks for the great feedback! > > I already converted many of my methods to actions helpers or moved them to > controller plugins. > > When I was exploring documentation and code I had a following idea: > > In Zend_

Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to add: any of this API changes would be a BC break. If you can access the URL view helper as $this->url() or $this->urlHelper(), one could actually have one of those method-names already used in his controller. Or am I too strict with BC here? M

Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-18 Thread Ben Scholzen 'DASPRiD'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or, as actions are suffixed with Action, helpers could thus be suffixed with Helper. So you could access the URL-Helper like this: $this->urlHelper(...); Just random thoughts. ... : ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___: :

Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-18 Thread Marko Korhonen
Thanks for the great feedback! I already converted many of my methods to actions helpers or moved them to controller plugins. When I was exploring documentation and code I had a following idea: In Zend_Controller_Action there is __call method: public function __call($methodName, $args) {

Re: [fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Marko Korhonen wrote (on Monday, 16 February 2009, 05:04 AM -0800): > I'm pretty sure that others have done the same as me: > > Base Controllers like My_BaseController and used as follows: > Module_SomeController extends MyLibrary_Controller_Base > > Well, if so, you probably have done some m

[fw-general] Base Controller convienience methods

2009-02-16 Thread Marko Korhonen
Hi all, I'm pretty sure that others have done the same as me: Base Controllers like My_BaseController and used as follows: Module_SomeController extends MyLibrary_Controller_Base Well, if so, you probably have done some methods just to shorten things a bit. I'll share some of my "convienience"