Custom View Helper vs Action View Helper in Zend Framework

Question

Hi

I was wondering when to call from the view a Custom View Helper like this one

<?php
class Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper
{
public $view;
public function setView(Zend_View_Interface $view)
{
$this->view = $view;
}
public function myHelper()
{
return $this->view->escape(’This is being output from the custom helper <br
/>’);
}
}
?>

and an action view helper.

Thanks. Yehia A.Salam

Answer 1

Why would you do this?

You could easily do:

<?php

class Zend_View_Helper_MyHelper extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract {
      public function myHelper() {
             return "This is output from the custom helper<br/>";
      }
}

?>

and then do a:

<? echo $this->myHelper(); ?>

on your view script