Re: How to populate a select form element from a different module/controller/model?

Bryce,

Excellent points, thanks!

I'll check the option to have Zend_Form use that view helper.

Would you actually create a dedicated view helper to retrieve the list of
languages or a more generic/abstract helper, that can load data from
different models (with a lot more complexity)?

Regards, TJ.



Bryce Lohr-2 wrote:
> 
> Creating a view helper that uses the Language model to pull the list of 
> languages is a perfectly valid solution to this problem. I would assume 
> you could then tell Zend_Form to use that view helper to display the 
> drop down.
> 
> Also, there's no technical reason why models can't access other models. 
> Whether you do so or not is entirely up to you and how you want your 
> application's architecture to work. It's probably not a good idea to 
> force models to depend on controllers to access other models, since the 
> whole model layer is better off being completely independent of the 
> controllers (or any other code that uses it). Think about what you'd 
> have to do if you had to build a CLI version of the application: you'd 
> probably need different controllers, which would break many models, but 
> you still need the same business logic.
> 
> Regards,
> Bryce Lohr
> 
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