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POHow do I call the methods in a model via controller? Zend Framework
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copied!<p>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.</p> <p>First, I'm quite new to the MVC structure, though I have been doing tutorials and learning as best I can.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So therefore I'm using one IndexController and I have the code in each Action method for each page: IE <code>public function exampleAction()</code> </p> <p>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).</p> <p>So basically, I had a working site by using a View and Controller and no model.</p> <p>...</p> <p>Now I'm trying to learn how to incorporate the Model.</p> <p>So I created a View at:</p> <pre><code>view/scripts/calendar/index.phtml </code></pre> <p>I created a new Controller at:</p> <pre><code>controller/CalendarControllers.php </code></pre> <p>and a new model at:</p> <pre><code>model/Calendar.php </code></pre> <p>The problem is I think I'm not correctly communication with the model (I'm still new to OOP).</p> <p>Can you look over my controller and model and tell me if you see a problem.</p> <p>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?</p> <p>Thanks for any help! I'm stripping out most of the guts of the methods for the sake of brevity:</p> <p>controller:</p> <pre><code><?php class CalendarController extends Zend_Controller_Action { public function indexAction() { $finishedFeedArray = new Application_Model_Calendar(); $this->view->googleArray = $finishedFeedArray; } } </code></pre> <p>model:</p> <pre><code> <?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; } } </code></pre> <p>Edit: sorry-I don't know why my formatting on the code keeps looking so ugly...</p>

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