Zend Framework - how to disable one or modules

Question

hello everyone,
currelntly Im working on some project (based on ZF) and Im wondering if it's possible to turn off one or more modules. By turn off I mean ZF wont load it at all.

To be more precise I would like to turn off one of the exiting app module.
Let say my App contains some modules written by sombody else and I for the time beeing I dont wanna use it. I hope this question make sense for you.

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Best Regards,
Robert

Answer 1

If I understood right and you want to disable a module (group of views/controllers) from your site, you can register a routeShutdown() FrontController plugin that checks the routed request. If it is disabled, then you redirect the user to an error controller.

Create a plugin that checks if the requested module is disabled

class MyDisabledModules extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
    protected $_disabled = array(
        'module1',
        'module2',
        'sales',
    );


    public function routeShutdown(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        $module = $request->getModuleName();

        if (in_array($module, $this->_disabled)) {
            $request->setModuleName('default')
                    ->setControllerName('disabled')
                    ->setActionName('index')
                    ->dispatched(false);
        }
    }
}

and then register it in the FrontController:

Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()
    ->registerPlugin(new MyDisabledModules());

You can hardcode the disabled plugins, you can fetch them from a database, a xml, from everything you want.

Answer 2

I think that what Luiz Damim proposed is overkill and wrong. The plugin will be called for each call unnecessary. Why doing stuff for disabled modules?

I would do a detection based on a config file where only active modules are instantiated.

UPDATE Usually modules are instantiated en masse:

$front->addModuleDirectory('/path/to/application/modules');

But you can activate modules one by one, or by passing an array with ONLY the ones that you want active.

$front->setControllerDirectory(array(
    'default' => '/path/to/application/controllers',
    'blog'    => '/path/to/application/blog/controllers'
));

If you are using Zend_application, I think you have to change this line in your config:

resources.modules[] =

with

resources.modules = admin
resources.modules = news

The first one loads whatever modules can find in the modules folder which is by default behaviour. I haven't worked yet with Zend Application so I am not sure about this, but there must be something like this.