Comments on: Calling a View Helper from inside another View Helper in Zend Framework

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:48:30 +0000

Thanks for that… for some reason I have never found the ZF documentation too useful, but the devzone stuff is great… cheers!

By: Behrng No

Behrng No — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:09:29 +0000

Hi this is a link
http://devzone.zend.com/article/3412

By: Bibek

Bibek — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:30:53 +0000

The post and the comment both were a help.
I was getting NULL with var_dump($this->view) since I hadn’t extended Zend_View_Helper_Abstract.

Cheers

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:19:08 +0000

Thanks Mike, I hadn’t noticed that this had been added. I’ll give it a go next time. I’ll leave this post up in case anyone is using an old version of the Zend Framework…

By: Mike van Lammeren

Mike van Lammeren — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:13:11 +0000

Hi Joe!

Thanks to your post, I found the answer to this problem. However, I suspect that your information is a little out of date.

In v1.7.6 of the Zend Framework, the current stable version, the Zend_View_Helper_Abstract class has a public $view variable and public setView() class, so as long as your view helpers have extended Zend_View_Helper_Abstract, then you can access other helpers like this:

$this->view->anyHelperYouLike();