[Solar-talk] controller helpers, maybe?

[Paul M Jones]

On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm adding more and more helper methods to my base application
> classes, and started to think in something like view helpers, but for
> controllers.
>
> I've tested the idea following very closely Solar_View helper
> implementation, and it worked so fine. :) It's all in
> Tipos_Controller_Page / Tipos_Controller_Helper:
>
>    http://dev.tipos.org/browser/trunk/Tipos/Controller/Page.php
>    http://dev.tipos.org/browser/trunk/Tipos/Controller/Helper.php
>
> Do you think this would be too much? Or maybe have other ideas to add
> extra shared functionalities to controllers?

You know, this is a really good idea.  We might want to call them  
"plugins" instead of "helpers", if only to keep the vocabulary  
distinct.  I can think of a couple situations I'm in right now where  
this would help immensely.

I would think these should be protected-access, not public-access, so  
that a "Plugin_Foo" would be called with ->_foo(), not ->foo().

Other thoughts?



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