Extending controller in Zend Framework 2

Question

Here is my app structure:

/application
/config
/library
  /Foo
    /Controler.php
/module
  /User
    /config
    /src
      /Bar
        /Controler
          /BarController.php
/public
/vendor
/init_autoloader.php

The Controler.php file...

namespace Foo_Controller;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractRestfulController;

class Foo_Controller extends AbstractRestfulController {
  protected $foo;

  public function getFoo()
  {
    return "foooo";
  }

  function __construct() 
  {
    parent::__construct();
    $foo = $this->getFoo();
  }
}

The BarController.php...

namespace Bar\Controler;

use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractRestfulController;
use Foo_Controller\Foo_Controller;
use Zend\View\Model\JsonModel;

class BarController extends Foo_Controller {
.
..
....
}

Added the path /library folder in the init_autoloader.php

  $loader = include 'vendor/autoload.php';
  $zf2Path = 'vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library';
  $loader->add('Zend', $zf2Path);
  $loader->add('Julia', 'library'); // added the library folder

  if (!class_exists('Zend\Loader\AutoloaderFactory')) {
    throw new RuntimeException('Unable to load ZF2. Run `php composer.phar install` or     define a ZF2_PATH environment variable.');
}

I get an error 500 with the following:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'Foo_Controller\Foo_Controller' not found in /application/module/Bar/src/Bar/Controller/BarController.php on line #

I really don't know what to do now. I have been searching the internet for some time now for the correct way to extend a controller class in Zend Frazmework 2, but i can't seem to grasp it!

What am i doing wrong in the app? Thank you

Purple Hexagon · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-07 11:53:18Z

2

I would suggest you set this out slightly differently. Would really make more sense to create your own custom module which you can load into any project with directory structure like:

/zf2-MyCustomModule /src /MyCustomModule /Controller /Abstract /MyAbstractController.php

namespace for MyAbstractController.php would be - MyCustomModule\Controller\Abstract

If it is specific to the project then why not just add

/Abstract /MyAbstractController.php

to the User Module Controller dir.

but seems like what you have done is pretty much right you would just need to update namespace in Foo_Controller.php to:

namespace Julia\Foo\Controller;

not

namespace Foo_Controller;

Though I have never used the method you are using so am not 100% sure.

I would add a new local config to /config/autoload/

like /config/autoload/namespaces.global.php

Zend\Loader\AutoloaderFactory::factory(array(
     'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array(
         'namespaces' => array(
             'Julia' => __DIR__ . '/Library',
         ),
     )
));

then your namespace should still be Julia\Foo\Controller;

edited May 7, 2014 at 11:53

answered May 7, 2014 at 10:58

Purple Hexagon

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alex Over a year ago

Yea changing the namespace should work. I've extended controllers in ZF2 with no issues.

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