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Max Schindler
Max Schindler

Reputation: 98

Zend Check if a Module is installed and active

i want to create a module for my running application. I chose module, so that it can be added optionally to the application.

I want to create the following. When the module is installed (module subfolder is placed in /application/modules/) i want to add a new button/function to my application.

I want to check for this installed module in a controller action.

Is there a way to do this?

Regards, Max

Upvotes: 1

Views: 780

Answers (2)

Joel Lord
Joel Lord

Reputation: 2173

In order to let the application generate the new menu, what I like to do is to create a global var that holds the menu. This way, in the new module Bootstrap, I can add items to the menu. The code that I use is rather long so I will not post it here but you can email me if you want it.

Upvotes: 0

Config
Config

Reputation: 1692

This should help:

$modules = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getControllerDirectory();

The modules are then given by the keys of the array that is returned:

array(
    'default' => '../application/controllers',
    'blog'    => '../modules/blog/controllers',
    'news'    => '../modules/news/controllers',
)

You can then perform the check in your action:

if (array_key_exists('myModule', $modules)) {
    // do something
}

Upvotes: 2

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