Comments on: Class naming convention in Zend Framework makes life harder http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/07/21/class-naming-convention-in-zend-framework-makes-life-harder/ From beta to world-beater... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Rob... http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/07/21/class-naming-convention-in-zend-framework-makes-life-harder/#comment-246 Rob... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:58:42 +0000 http://thislab.com/?p=43#comment-246 It's really rare to need to load a controller manually as any common functionality between controllers should be factored out in action helpers. Regards, Rob... It’s really rare to need to load a controller manually as any common functionality between controllers should be factored out in action helpers.

Regards,

Rob…

]]> By: Chris Abernethy http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/07/21/class-naming-convention-in-zend-framework-makes-life-harder/#comment-244 Chris Abernethy Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:41:36 +0000 http://thislab.com/?p=43#comment-244 I agree that the naming conventions/requirements can be somewhat confusing, but it does seem like a good balance between representing the MVC architecture in the default directory structures and having a standard naming convention. I agree that the naming conventions/requirements can be somewhat confusing, but it does seem like a good balance between representing the MVC architecture in the default directory structures and having a standard naming convention.

]]> By: Tim Fountain http://www.beyondcoding.com/2008/07/21/class-naming-convention-in-zend-framework-makes-life-harder/#comment-245 Tim Fountain Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:49:57 +0000 http://thislab.com/?p=43#comment-245 Zend_Loader always expects class names to match paths, this is how it knows where to find them. Helpers and Controller classes are special cases, are used internally and shouldn't ever need to be loaded by Zend_Loader, which is why they have different naming conventions. The only situation I can think of in which this would be an issue would be if you were trying to get one of your controllers to extend some base class that wasn't yet loaded. Zend_Loader would then try and find the class based on the name. Is this what you're trying to do? Zend_Loader always expects class names to match paths, this is how it knows where to find them. Helpers and Controller classes are special cases, are used internally and shouldn’t ever need to be loaded by Zend_Loader, which is why they have different naming conventions.

The only situation I can think of in which this would be an issue would be if you were trying to get one of your controllers to extend some base class that wasn’t yet loaded. Zend_Loader would then try and find the class based on the name. Is this what you’re trying to do?

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