How do I eliminate the need for the "Controller" suffix in the filename of a Zend Framework controller? It just gets tiresome to keep typing that suffix in when creating controllers, and meanwhile the file is already in a controllers folder so it's superfluous.
For instance, by default the homepage on a site goes to "controllers/IndexController.php". What if I want it to go to "controllers/Index.php"?
The latter portion of the class name is hardcoded to "Controller" in Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Abstract::formatControllerName().
To change it, you'd have to create a custom Dispatcher class that implements Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Interface and override the formatControllerName() function. Then assign an instance of your new Dispatcher to the front controller in your bootstrap script with $frontController->setDispatcher() before you call dispatch().
Why would you need to change the format of a controller class name anyway? It's not like that PHP file appears in a request URL anywhere.
Sounds like you're bikeshedding.