EXT: My Extension¶

What does it do?¶

ZView is a class for working with the "view" portion of the model- view-controller pattern. It exists to help keep the view script separate from the model and controller scripts. It provides a system of helpers and variable escaping.

ZView is something of an anti-templating engine in that it uses PHP natively for its templating.

Using ZView happens in two major steps:

Your controller script creates an instance of ZView and assigns variables to that instance.

The controller tells the ZView to render a particular view, thereby handing control over the view script, which generates the view output.

ZView extends Zend_View_Abstract. For more information about the Zend_View component refer to their online manual.

See http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.html

API Documentation¶

For the API documentation have a look at “doc/api/” within the ZV iew extension folder.

((generated))¶

<?php

$books = array(
 array(
 'author' => 'J. K. Rowling',
 'title' => 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'
 ),
 array(
 'author' => 'Khaled Hosseini',
 'title' => 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
 ),
 array(
 'author' => 'Milton Friedman',
 'title' => 'Free to Choose'
 ),
    array(
        'author' => 'Jeffrey Toobin',
        'title' => 'The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court'
    ),
    array(
        'author' => 'J. R. R. Tolkien',
        'title' => 'The Children of Hurin'
    )
);
$view = t3lib_div::makeInstance('tx_zview');
$view->setPi($this);
$view->addScriptPath('/path_to_view_scripts/');
$view->books = $books;
$view->render('books.phtml');

((generated))¶

<?php if (!defined ('TYPO3_MODE')) die ('Access denied.'); ?>

<h2>Example 1: Using a foreach</h2>
<?php if ($this->books): ?>
    <table border="1">
        <tr>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th>Author</th>
        </tr>
        <?php foreach ($this->books as $key => $val): ?>
        <tr>
            <td><?php echo $this->escape($val['title']) ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $this->escape($val['author']) ?></td>
        </tr>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    </table>
<?php else: ?>
    <p>There are no books to display.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Environment Helper¶

Returns System Environment Variables regardless of server OS, CGI/MODULE version etc. Basically this is SERVER variables for most of them. This is a wrapper for t3lib_div::getIndpEnv();

<?= $this->t3env('TYPO3_REQUEST_HOST') ?>
<?= $this->t3env('TYPO3_HOST_ONLY') ?>

Image Helper¶

Generates a cached image element using the image manipulation class of TYPO3.

<?= $this->t3image('typo3conf/ext/zviewtest/pi1/res/colors.jpg', 200, 0, 'jpg') ?>
<?= $this->t3image('typo3conf/ext/zviewtest/pi1/res/colors.png', 150, 0, 'png') ?>
<?= $this->t3image('typo3conf/ext/zviewtest/pi1/res/colors.gif', 100, 0, 'gif') ?>

Link Helper¶

Generates a link using the tslib_pibase methods of TYPO3.

See example 5 of extension zviewtest .

Mailto Helper¶

Generates mailto link elements.

Page Helper¶

Retrieves a field of TYPO3s page table.

Popup Link Helper¶

Generates a link to open a new popup window.

Table Helper¶

Generates a table element.

See example 6 of extension zviewtest .

Translate Helper¶

Translates a text string using the translation methods of TYPO3. If Zend_Translate is instantiated and registered in Zend Registry using key “Zend_Translate”, Zends translate adapter is used.

See example 4 of extension zviewtest .

Url Helper¶

Generates an url using the tslib_pibase methods of TYPO3.

See example 5 of extension zviewtest .

XmlEntities Helper¶

Generates a XML conform text string.