Question

Just need to set up navigation per admin module, I know it is strange and not really good practice may be but I need to set it for admin part.
thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

$viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer');
if (null === $viewRenderer->view) {
    $viewRenderer->initView();
}
$view = $viewRenderer->view;

This excerpt is taken from Zend_Layout::getView();

If you are going to need the layout anyway too, you could extend Zend_Layout_Controller_Plugin_Layout in stead of Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract.

Then, to access the layout do:

$this->getLayout();

And to access the view, do:

$this->getLayout()->getView();