Zend框架，View

Question

Small mystery: can't seem to pass views between my Index controller (chartAction) and my view. When I go to my localhost it is not accessing the view phtml- instead it is just showing the controller every time (i.e: if I write "echo "HELLO WORLD!""; in my controller I get that echoed...but if I do a $this->view->test = "Hello World!" then access the index.phtml and type in echo $this->test; I get nothing (it still defaults to the controller action). Is there a step that I'm missing here? Why is my $this->view not functioning? I used the command line to create the view so I'm pretty sure that should be set up correctly. Do I need to register something? Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Assuming a standard MVC setup of ZF1.x, there is a definite relationship between the url, the controller and the action.

The url http://mydomain.com/index would call the index action of the index controller, typically the index action is the default action and is called automatically. the view script would be /application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml

The url http://mydomain.com/index/chart would call the chart action of the index controller and the view script would be /application/views/scripts/index/chart.phtml

Keep in mind that this behavior is changeable based on configuration and routing options.

It sounds like you may be fairly new at working with ZF. So something like the following may help demonstrate the relationship :

// application/controllers/IndexController.php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function init()
    {

    }

    public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->view->test = "Hello World, from the indexAction().";
    }
    public function chartAction()
    {
        $this->view->test = "Hello World, from the chartAction().";
    }


// application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml
<?php echo $this->test ?>


// application/views/scripts/index/chart.phtml
<?php echo $this->test ?>

now test your application by calling the url's:

http://yourDomain.com/index/index
http://yourDomain.com/index/chart

If your setup is correct you will see the proper response in your pages.