Question

Let’s say I have a User_RegistrationController from with I want to extend in another module like so:

class Clinic_RegisterController extends User_RegisterController

but I’ve PHP error for that:

( ! ) Fatal error: Class 'User_RegisterController' not found /application/modules/clinic/controllers/RegisterController.php on line 4

Is there any way to extend a controller from another module?

Answer 1

You could pull your base controller into into a separate library class:

class App_Controller_Action_MyController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    // your base controller code here
}

Then the controller in module foo could be empty:

class Foo_MyController extends App_Controller_Action_MyController
{
}

while the controller in module bar could contain your overrides:

class Bar_MyController extends App_Controller_Action_MyController
{
     // override your members/methods
}

Don’t forget the add App_ as an autoloadernamespace.