Question

In the setup below, there is
a controller action (index/hello) that renders a view script different than the default
index/instead-of-hello.phtml instead of index/hello.phtml

public function helloAction()
{
    $this->renderScript('index/instead-of-hello.phtml');
}

I would like to unit test that the action actually renders index/instead-of-hello.phtml

public function testHelloAction()
{
    $params = array('action' => 'hello', 'controller' => 'Index', 'module' => 'default');
    $urlParams = $this->urlizeOptions($params);
    $url = $this->url($urlParams);
    $this->dispatch($url);
    $renderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
    $this->assertEquals('index/instead-of-hello.phtml', $renderer->getViewScript());
}

This test fails since the renderer->getViewScript() returns the script that would be rendered by default and not the one that was actually rendered.

1) IndexControllerTest::testHelloAction
Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-index/instead-of-hello.phtml
+index/hello.phtml

How could I successfully test that the script index/instead-of-hello.phtml was actually rendered?

Zend Framework 1.12 is used on the example above.

Answer 1

try:

$this->render('index/instead-of-hello.phtml');

here is the explanation from Documentation:

$this->renderScript()

When using this method, the ViewRenderer does no autodetermination of
the script name, but instead directly passes the $script argument
directly to the view object’s render() method.