Question

I’m building my first personal website using Zend 1.11. To create the directory structure I’ve used the zf script that comes with the framework. I can use the same script to create controllers/views like so:

/home
/contact
/blog
/about

Yet where I’ve come unstuck is trying to encompass multiple directories e.g.

/contact/address
/about/cv/workhistory

…I just get an error saying the content cannot be found. There is no model, just a controller (route?) and a view. I’ve tried adding the desired directory structure when I use zf but this results in an error e.g.

zf create controller about/cv/workhistory

Is this even possible in MVC or does it show a lack of understanding of what MVC is on my part? Thanks in advance for any help/tips/pointers

Answer 1

ok you’ve created some controllers. Now it looks as though you want to add some functions to your controllers.
In order to do /contact/address it would be appropriate to have the addressAction() inside your ContactController().

A controller is a group of actions (read METHODS). When you built your application 2 controllers were built with it, one of them was the IndexController() that also gave you your first action indexAction() and your first view index.phtml located at /application/views/scripts/index:

<?php

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

    public function init()
    {
        /* Initialize action controller here */
    }

    public function indexAction()
    {

    }


}

Zend Framework implements the MVC paradigm with actual Models, Views and Controllers. In the controllers are your actions grab data and prepare it to be viewed.

Go ahead and do yourself a favor and run through some tutorials, here are some suggestions.
Rob Allens ZF 1.11 tutorial
Zend Framework Quickstart
The naming conventions are important to understand and can be found at:
Zend Framework Naming conventions