Question

My website uses the zend framework and runs in a sub folder, for example: http://www.example.com/sub/folder. Now I want to prepend my css links with /sub/folder/ to make the css load in pages like http://www.example.com/sub/folder/product/abc, I thought I found a view helper to do this BaseUrl but BaseUrl seems only to work in actual view files and not in a bootstrap class.
Does anybody know the reason for this and an exceptable workaround?

This is Snippet of my boodstrap class.

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initStylesheet()
    {
        $this->_logger->info('Bootstrap ' . __METHOD__);

        $this->bootstrap('view');
        $this->_view = $this->getResource('view');

        $this->_view->headLink()->appendStylesheet($this->_view->baseUrl('/css/main.css'));
    }
}

Answer 1

I found the reason why the baseUrl() view helper didn’t work in the Bootstrap. It’s because Zend_Controller_Front didn’t have a Zend_Controller_Request.

So to solve the issue I added an other resource method to initialize the request.

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initRequest()
    {
        $this->_logger->info('Bootstrap ' . __METHOD__);

        $this->bootstrap('FrontController');

        $front = $this->getResource('FrontController');
        $request = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();

        $front->setRequest($request);
    }

    protected function _initStylesheet()
    {
        $this->_logger->info('Bootstrap ' . __METHOD__);

        $this->bootstrap('view');
        $this->_view = $this->getResource('view');

        $this->_view->headLink()->appendStylesheet($this->_view->baseUrl('/css/main.css'));
    }
}