Question

Just a quick logical question.

I have 2 Zend Controllers namely Merchant and Account. Merchant Controller has an action called editAction. My question is whether it is possible to have same action in Account as well without duplicating the code. I managed to create a include file for the view but I like to have a best way to manage my code. I currently have an idea of having an Helper class and invoke that helper class to both these Controllers. But I know someone would have got better solution than this. Please help me.

Thank you

Answer 1

The simplest solution would be to extend Zend_Controller_Action into your own base class and put editAction() into that. For example, assuming you have model classes named ‘Account’ and ‘Merchant’:

abstract class My_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    protected $_modelName;

    public function editAction()
    {
        $model = new $this->_modelName();
        // Do your editing here.
    }
}

class AccountController extends My_Controller_Action
{
    protected $_modelName = 'Account';
}

class MerchantController extends My_Controller_Action
{
    protected $_modelName = 'Merchant';
}

Keep in mind that this design implies that the code in editAction() would work for both Accounts and Merchants.