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Bartosz Rychlicki
Bartosz Rychlicki

Reputation: 1918

Share zend module controllers for use in another module

Let's say I have a User_RegistrationController from with I want to extend in another module like so:

class Clinic_RegisterController extends User_RegisterController

but I've PHP error for that:

( ! ) Fatal error: Class 'User_RegisterController' not found /application/modules/clinic/controllers/RegisterController.php on line 4

Is there any way to extend a controller from another module?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 669

Answers (3)

David Weinraub
David Weinraub

Reputation: 14184

You could pull your base controller into into a separate library class:

class App_Controller_Action_MyController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    // your base controller code here
}

Then the controller in module foo could be empty:

class Foo_MyController extends App_Controller_Action_MyController
{
}

while the controller in module bar could contain your overrides:

class Bar_MyController extends App_Controller_Action_MyController
{
     // override your members/methods
}

Don't forget the add App_ as an autoloadernamespace.

Upvotes: 3

Eddie Jaoude
Eddie Jaoude

Reputation: 1708

Why do you need a controller from another module to be extended? This creates a dependency on another module. If there is common code in both controllers use action helpers in the application layer.

Upvotes: 0

drew010
drew010

Reputation: 69927

The autoloader is just not set up to find controllers from other modules.

If you want to do what you are doing, you can simply add a require_once statement above your class definition:

require_once APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules/user/controllers/RegisterController.php';

class Clinic_RegisterController extends User_RegisterController
{
    //...
}

Upvotes: 1

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