Question

I was wondering when to call from the view a Custom View Helper like this one

<?php
class Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper
{
    public $view;

    public function setView(Zend_View_Interface $view)
    {
        $this->view = $view;
    }

    public function myHelper()
    {
        return $this->view->escape(
            ’This is being output from the custom helper <br />’
        );
    }
}
?>

and an action view helper.

Thanks.
Yehia A.Salam

Answer 1

Why would you do this?

You could easily do:

class Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract
{
    public function myHelper()
    {
        return "This is output from the custom helper<br/>";
    }
}

and then do a:

<?php echo $this->myHelper(); ?>

on your view script