having trouble with setting simple module structure.

[Julian Davchev]

Hi,



I must say I read the whole manual regarding controllers and most stuff
seems pretty straight forward but for some reason I couldn't do the
following.

From what I see for my needs will be good to have one module for client
view and one admin  module for admin stuff.

1)
I tried using this
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.modular.html
point 7.11.2

My structure is as follows - having default + admin module.

application
      default/controllers/IndexController.php

      admin/controllers/IndexController.php


$dir = array(
      'default' => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/default/controllers',
      'admin'    => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/admin/controllers'
);


$controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$controller->setControllerDirectory($dir);
$controller->setParam('noViewRenderer', true);
$controller->throwExceptions(true);


When I try to launch
domain.com/        default module cicks in as is supposed to

but when I do
domain.com/admin/index/index/

for example....it says
File "IndexController.php" was not foundexception 'Zend_Exception'

and after some debugging I see it is looking for class
Admin_IndexController.php

witch probably translates to admin/IndexController.php and not
admin/controllers/IndexController.php

Can someone lead me to what I do wrong?


2. One more question:
This models directory....I kind of miss how it comes together with the
whole part. I mean...is there any way to include
stuff automatically from there.... can I share automatically same models
dir for two modules?
Because right now to include something from there I am pretty much
include manually stuff - which doesnt make much sense if it is suggested
dir stays there.

Thanks for time spent

Regards

[weierophinney]

-- Julian Davchev <[hidden email]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 01:43 PM +0300):

> My structure is as follows - having default + admin module.
>
> application
>       default/controllers/IndexController.php
>
>       admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>
>
> $dir = array(
>       'default' => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/default/controllers',
>       'admin'    => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/admin/controllers'
> );
>
>
> $controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
> $controller->setControllerDirectory($dir);
> $controller->setParam('noViewRenderer', true);
> $controller->throwExceptions(true);
>
>
> When I try to launch
> domain.com/        default module cicks in as is supposed to
>
> but when I do
> domain.com/admin/index/index/
>
> for example....it says
> File "IndexController.php" was not foundexception 'Zend_Exception'
>
> and after some debugging I see it is looking for class
> Admin_IndexController.php
>
> witch probably translates to admin/IndexController.php and not
> admin/controllers/IndexController.php

Read the documentation closely: except in the default module, modules
are namespaced with the module name, which is TitleCased. Thus,
admin/controllers/IndexController.php should contain the class
Admin_IndexController.

> 2. One more question:
> This models directory....I kind of miss how it comes together with the
> whole part. I mean...is there any way to include
> stuff automatically from there.... can I share automatically same models
> dir for two modules?
> Because right now to include something from there I am pretty much
> include manually stuff - which doesnt make much sense if it is suggested
> dir stays there.

We haven't spent much time on a generic model interface. We suggest
placing module specific models in a models subdirectory of your module
simply for grouping purposes -- consider, for instance, if you decided
to distribute a module, or wanted to restrict access in your repository
for certain developers to work only on certain modules -- all the code
is then in one place.

We don't have any methods yet for automatically including models within
a module. It's fairly easy to do it manually:

    require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/models/MyModel.php';

and I suspect we'll have either an action helper or a method in the
action controller post-1.0.0 to make this simpler.

--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
PHP Developer            | [hidden email]
Zend - The PHP Company   | http://www.zend.com/

[Julian Davchev]

damn, I dig in deeper in mail archive.
Turns out controller class should be named <module_name>_ControllerName
I my case Admin_IndexController. Filename remains IndexController.php
So question 1 is cleared.

Someone could elaborate on question 2 would be great.



Regards,



Julian Davchev wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I must say I read the whole manual regarding controllers and most stuff
> seems pretty straight forward but for some reason I couldn't do the
> following.
>
> From what I see for my needs will be good to have one module for client
> view and one admin  module for admin stuff.
>
> 1)
> I tried using this
> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.modular.html
> point 7.11.2
>
> My structure is as follows - having default + admin module.
>
> application
>       default/controllers/IndexController.php
>
>       admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>
>
> $dir = array(
>       'default' => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/default/controllers',
>       'admin'    => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/admin/controllers'
> );
>
>
> $controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
> $controller->setControllerDirectory($dir);
> $controller->setParam('noViewRenderer', true);
> $controller->throwExceptions(true);
>
>
> When I try to launch
> domain.com/        default module cicks in as is supposed to
>
> but when I do
> domain.com/admin/index/index/
>
> for example....it says
> File "IndexController.php" was not foundexception 'Zend_Exception'
>
> and after some debugging I see it is looking for class
> Admin_IndexController.php
>
> witch probably translates to admin/IndexController.php and not
> admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>
> Can someone lead me to what I do wrong?
>
>
> 2. One more question:
> This models directory....I kind of miss how it comes together with the
> whole part. I mean...is there any way to include
> stuff automatically from there.... can I share automatically same models
> dir for two modules?
> Because right now to include something from there I am pretty much
> include manually stuff - which doesnt make much sense if it is suggested
> dir stays there.
>
> Thanks for time spent
>
> Regards
>
>
>  

[Maurice Fonk]

On question 2: You can create a "global" model directory, or maybe put
global models into your "default" module's model directory. The only
important thing is that it is in your include path. But, even better, I
can point you toward a solution that popped up on this list yesterday:

http://www.nabble.com/Model-Loading-helper-tf3942096s16154.html#a11181598

hope that helps,
MF

Julian Davchev wrote:

> damn, I dig in deeper in mail archive.
> Turns out controller class should be named <module_name>_ControllerName
> I my case Admin_IndexController. Filename remains IndexController.php
> So question 1 is cleared.
>
> Someone could elaborate on question 2 would be great.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Julian Davchev wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I must say I read the whole manual regarding controllers and most stuff
>> seems pretty straight forward but for some reason I couldn't do the
>> following.
>>
>> From what I see for my needs will be good to have one module for client
>> view and one admin  module for admin stuff.
>>
>> 1)
>> I tried using this
>> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.modular.html
>> point 7.11.2
>>
>> My structure is as follows - having default + admin module.
>>
>> application
>>       default/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>>       admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>>
>> $dir = array(
>>       'default' => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/default/controllers',
>>       'admin'    => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/admin/controllers'
>> );
>>
>>
>> $controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
>> $controller->setControllerDirectory($dir);
>> $controller->setParam('noViewRenderer', true);
>> $controller->throwExceptions(true);
>>
>>
>> When I try to launch
>> domain.com/        default module cicks in as is supposed to
>>
>> but when I do
>> domain.com/admin/index/index/
>>
>> for example....it says
>> File "IndexController.php" was not foundexception 'Zend_Exception'
>>
>> and after some debugging I see it is looking for class
>> Admin_IndexController.php
>>
>> witch probably translates to admin/IndexController.php and not
>> admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>> Can someone lead me to what I do wrong?
>>
>>
>> 2. One more question:
>> This models directory....I kind of miss how it comes together with the
>> whole part. I mean...is there any way to include
>> stuff automatically from there.... can I share automatically same models
>> dir for two modules?
>> Because right now to include something from there I am pretty much
>> include manually stuff - which doesnt make much sense if it is suggested
>> dir stays there.
>>
>> Thanks for time spent
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>  
>>    
>
>
>
>  

--
Maurice Fonk

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[velanzia]

Hey

I dont know whether this is the best way to solve this problem about loading MODELS for a specific MODULE. I had this same question and burned a hell of a time trying to understand what to do. This is the solution i found:

i got three modules like this:

default
-> controllers
-> models
-> views

pro
-> controllers
-> models
-> views

public
-> controllers
-> models
-> views

Now i needed to load the index model class for the PRO module. And this should happen within the PRO's index action. This is what I came up with:

file: /pro/controllers/IndexController.php

public function init() {
    Zend_Loader::loadClass('Pro_Models_Index');
}

public function indexAction() {
    $objIndex = new Pro_Models_Index();
    $objIndex->theGreatFunction();
}

file: /pro/models/Index.php

class Pro_Models_Index {
    theGreatFunction() {
        // some code here
    }
}

like wise we can use "Default_Models_Index", "Public_Models_Index" or even "Pro_Models_List" which searches for a "/pro/models/List.php" file. You can see I just simply send in the path to models. I found this is a pretty neat way.

Let me know if this worked for you :)

-- M

Maurice Fonk wrote:

On question 2: You can create a "global" model directory, or maybe put
global models into your "default" module's model directory. The only
important thing is that it is in your include path. But, even better, I
can point you toward a solution that popped up on this list yesterday:

http://www.nabble.com/Model-Loading-helper-tf3942096s16154.html#a11181598

hope that helps,
MF

Julian Davchev wrote:
> damn, I dig in deeper in mail archive.
> Turns out controller class should be named <module_name>_ControllerName
> I my case Admin_IndexController. Filename remains IndexController.php
> So question 1 is cleared.
>
> Someone could elaborate on question 2 would be great.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Julian Davchev wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I must say I read the whole manual regarding controllers and most stuff
>> seems pretty straight forward but for some reason I couldn't do the
>> following.
>>
>> From what I see for my needs will be good to have one module for client
>> view and one admin  module for admin stuff.
>>
>> 1)
>> I tried using this
>> http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.modular.html
>> point 7.11.2
>>
>> My structure is as follows - having default + admin module.
>>
>> application
>>       default/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>>       admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>>
>> $dir = array(
>>       'default' => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/default/controllers',
>>       'admin'    => PROJECT_ROOT . '/application/admin/controllers'
>> );
>>
>>
>> $controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
>> $controller->setControllerDirectory($dir);
>> $controller->setParam('noViewRenderer', true);
>> $controller->throwExceptions(true);
>>
>>
>> When I try to launch
>> domain.com/        default module cicks in as is supposed to
>>
>> but when I do
>> domain.com/admin/index/index/
>>
>> for example....it says
>> File "IndexController.php" was not foundexception 'Zend_Exception'
>>
>> and after some debugging I see it is looking for class
>> Admin_IndexController.php
>>
>> witch probably translates to admin/IndexController.php and not
>> admin/controllers/IndexController.php
>>
>> Can someone lead me to what I do wrong?
>>
>>
>> 2. One more question:
>> This models directory....I kind of miss how it comes together with the
>> whole part. I mean...is there any way to include
>> stuff automatically from there.... can I share automatically same models
>> dir for two modules?
>> Because right now to include something from there I am pretty much
>> include manually stuff - which doesnt make much sense if it is suggested
>> dir stays there.
>>
>> Thanks for time spent
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>  
>>    
>
>
>
>  


--
Maurice Fonk

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