How do I call the methods in a model via controller? Zend Framework
- by Joel
Hi guys,
I've been searching for tutorials to better understand this, but I'm having no luck. Please forgive the lengthy explination, but I want make sure I explain myself well.
First, I'm quite new to the MVC structure, though I have been doing tutorials and learning as best I can.
I have been moving over a live site into the Zend Framework model. So far, I have all the views within views/scripts/index/example.phtml.
So therefore I'm using one IndexController and I have the code in each Action method for each page: IE public function exampleAction()
Because I didn't know how to interact with a model, I put all the methods at the bottom of the controller (a fat controller).
So basically, I had a working site by using a View and Controller and no model.
...
Now I'm trying to learn how to incorporate the Model.
So I created a View at:
view/scripts/calendar/index.phtml
I created a new Controller at:
controller/CalendarControllers.php
and a new model at:
model/Calendar.php
The problem is I think I'm not correctly communication with the model (I'm still new to OOP).
Can you look over my controller and model and tell me if you see a problem.
I'm needing to return an array from runCalendarScript(), but I'm not sure if I can return an array into the object like I'm trying to? I don't really understand how to "run" the runCalendarScript() from the controller?
Thanks for any help! I'm stripping out most of the guts of the methods for the sake of brevity:
controller:
<?php
class CalendarController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function indexAction()
{
$finishedFeedArray = new Application_Model_Calendar();
$this->view->googleArray = $finishedFeedArray;
}
}
model:
<?php
class Application_Model_Calendar
{
public function _runCalendarScript(){
$gcal = $this->_validateCalendarConnection();
$uncleanedFeedArray = $this->_getCalendarFeed($gcal);
$finishedFeedArray = $this->_cleanFeed($uncleanedFeedArray);
return $finishedFeedArray;
}
//Validate Google Calendar connection
public function _validateCalendarConnection()
{
...
return $gcal;
}
//extracts googles calendar object into the $feed object
public function _getCalendarFeed($gcal)
{
...
return $feed;
}
//cleans the feed to just text, etc
protected function _cleanFeed($uncleanedFeedArray)
{
$contentText = $this->_cleanupText($event);
$eventData = $this->_filterEventDetails($contentText);
return $cleanedArray;
}
//Cleans up all formatting of text from Calendar feed
public function _cleanupText($event)
{
...
return $contentText;
}
//filterEventDetails
protected function _filterEventDetails($contentText)
{
...
return $data;
}
}
