I'm having a small problem about integration of Smarty in ZF...

I'm developing an customized CMS, and it should be modular. For now on, there are to modules - default and admin. In those modules, there are similar (or same) names of controllers and their actions, i.e. IndexController and indexAction(). Problem is that Smarty returns the same compiled template for index actions in Index controller for both modules!

I somehow solved that problem by creating directory for each module in template_c. But I'm wondering is there any better solution, maybe one that will tell Smarty to give names to those files in template_c in some other way.

Thanks.

I have a very bizarre problem with ZF and Smarty plugin...

I've created helper (Smarty plugin), that just needs to output login form, or logout link based on whether user is signed in or not. Code looks something like this:
if (!Zend_Auth::getInstance()->hasIdentity()) {
//outputting login form
}
else {
//outputting logout link
}
That works just fine on every controller except one. I can't even visit that controller page, because of Invalid controller specified (error) exception. I know, that exception is thrown because I haven't created Error controller, but I can't believe that that plugin is not working only at one controller!

I found out that the problem is in Zend_Auth::getInstance()->hasIdentity() code line, because when I remove that line, everything works fine and template is outputted properly.

Does anyone know what could cause the problem?

Thanks.

You have to call the Zend_View_Abstract constructor to set the paths to the helpers (like Zend_Form_Element_Text).

Add to the top of the constructor
parent::__construct(array()); ## add
$this->_engine = new Smarty(); # as before

Since you are clling the parent - you also have to extend the original

require_once 'Zend/View.php';
class AkCom_View_Smarty extends Zend_View implements Zend_View_Interface ....

# It's also useful to change the AkCom_View_Smarty::__constructor default parameter to 'array()' (from: null), so it can be passed into the constructor unchanged
parent::__construct($params); ## alternate

Shouldn't do as Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer is written against Zend_View_Interface.

You might need to check if Zend_View_Interface has changed since this was posted though!

Regards,

Rob...

Thanks!
William

Copy/paste error :) Good catch!

I've updated.

Regards,

Rob...

On the setCacheLifetime() function, you use $dir as the variable passing to Smarty, but you're defining it on the function call as $seconds.

--Sam

No reason why not. Just instantiate either a Zend_View or an AkCom_View_Smarty in the controller and and assign to $view before you call initView().

Regards,

Rob...

Rob, any idea if works fine for 0.9.x ?

Also, i am thinking that approach for making a new view based sub class is not the best idea when is needed to mix both ZF default view and Smarty view... I am wondering if is not possible to mix both on same class...