Question

We have a Zend application that has these following modules:

Users
Shop
etc...
Front - A content management module

While the Front module has the following controllers:

UsersController
ShopController
AuthController
etc...

In the middle of our development cycle we decided to set the default module for the Zend application to the Front module, but inadvertently broke our links, as http://domain.com/front/users/list are now generated as http://domain.com/users/list, which is now pointing to the wrong action.

We are generating links using the URL view helper, (i.e. $this->url(array('module' => 'front', 'controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'list'));), but the ‘front’ URI segment is omitted since switching the default module to the Front module.

I totally understand why this is so, but we are avoiding renaming all controllers under the Front module to avoid conflicts.

My question is, is there is a way to instruct the URL view helper to always include the ‘front’ module URI segment even if it is already set as the default one?

Answer 1

My question is, is there is a way to instruct the URL view helper to
always include the ‘front’ module URI segment even if it is already
set as the default one?

You can create your own url view helper with same name and override default url view helper add it to Zend_View object in your bootstrap.

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

    $view = $viewRenderer->view;

    $view->addHelperPath('/path/to/some/helpers', 'My_View_Helper');

Now create class My_View_Helper_Url let it extend Zend_View_Helper_Url override url method.
Here is reference form ZF doc about this procedure

In fact, you can “stack” paths using the addHelperPath() method. As
you add paths to the stack, Zend_View will look at the
most-recently-added path for the requested helper class. This allows
you to add to (or even override) the initial distribution of helpers
with your own custom helpers.

Having said that I think http://domain.com/users/list, should have worked correctly in first place since you have specified default module to front.