Question

I try to follow this tutorial, but I can’t get it to work:

http://weierophinney.net/matthew/archives/246-Using-Action-Helpers-To-Implement-Re-Usable-Widgets.html

I did everything as described, but I don’t know how to make it available in my controllers. My filesystem looks like this:

- application
    - controllers
        - IndexController.php
    - modules
        - user
            - configs
                user.ini
            - controllers
            - forms
                Login.php
            - helpers
                HandleLogin.php
            - views
                - scripts
                    login.phmtl
                    profile.phtml
            Bootstrap.php
    - views

How do I use the HandleLogin Helper in my IndexController? I really have no idea and I’m looking an trying for more then a day and I almost want to throw my PC out of the window ;). So any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Looks like the widget plugin is not called anywhere.

Few things to check:

1. Do you have a Bootstrap.php file for the module?

2. Does this bootstrap file has _initWidgets() method?

3. Does this method call:

   $widget = new Module_Widget_Name; // is it callable?
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($widget);

4. Have you registered widget resource?

   public function _initResourceLoader()
{
$loader = $this->getResourceLoader();
$loader->addResourceType('helper', 'helpers', 'Helper');
$loader->addResourceType('widget', 'widgets', 'Widget');

    return $loader;
   

   }

5. Does application.ini contains resources.modules[] = line?