从View Helper调用Zend View Script

Question

I'd like to call a .phtml file I have in /application/views/scripts in my view helper located in /library/Foo/View/Helper. Zend shows an error as partial is not a defined method within Zend_View_Helper.

Is what I am trying to do possible? On Zend Framework v1.12.

Syntax would look something like below:

View Helper:

class Foo_View_Helper_NavPopup extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract
{
    public function navPopup() {

        $popup = $this->partial("popup.phtml");
        return $popup;
    }
}

View Script (popup.phtml):

<div id="container">html things and stuff and such and so forth..</div>

Answer 1

The main source of the problem here was a quirky namespacing issue with my codebase, specifically because I am working with the header of the page and not a specific module within the application itself.

By using $this->view->addScriptPath(APPLICATION_PATH . "/views/scripts/"); I gave the view an explicit direction to the path to find the script. This fixed the problem.