Re: [fw-mvc] Access the name of the controller from a View_Helper script.

I would say you in essence you're starting out the wrong way. I think
the notion of "pages" is something more abstract than a
controller+action. Instead, I would use something like Zend_Navigation
(http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Navigation).
Whatever you do, the basic idea would be to "abstract away" the pages
of your site into something of a more a higher level, and generate the
navigation from that.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, J DeBord <jasdebord@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to access the name of the controller from a View_Helper script.
>
> I think I could figure out how to explicitly pass it to the view, but I don't want to have to do this in every Controller.
>
> Any comments regarding how to generate navigation in the layout script based on which controller is being called are welcome as well. Especially if I am not going about it the best way. See code below.
>
> Thanks!
>
> <?php
>
> class Zend_View_Helper_Nav extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract {
>
>     /* Return appropriate navigation based on controller */
>     public function nav() {
>
>         $controller = ????????????????????????
>
>         if ( $controller != 'admin' ) {
>             $nav = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__). '/defaultNav.php');
>         } else {
>             $nav = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__). '/adminNav.php');
>         }
>         return $nav;
>     }
>
> }