Nick Bartlett

With Zend Framework, you may have the need to know the directory name of the currently executing view script. For example, I have page nicktest.php, which uses nickTestController.php and view scripts in directory /nick-test/.  In my case, I wanted to know the name of this directory from my layout so I could include additional meta data on the page if the file existed within /nick-test/.  Unfortunately searching Google did not provide me with the answer and after hours of debugging and stepping through Zend’s MVC, I found the solution.

In your bootstrap, find where the view renderer is instantiated, like this

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/**
 * setup the view layer
 */
public static function setupView() {
	self::$view = new Zend_View();
	self::$view->setEncoding('UTF-8');
	self::$viewRenderer = new Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer(self::$view);
	Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper(self::$viewRenderer);
}

Be sure to assign the $viewRenderer to self and create the public static variable within the Bootstrap class so we can access it from our layout or a controller. Then, in your controller, the below code will return “/nick-test/index.phtml” or whatever action is being processed.

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$nameAndDirectoryOfThisPage = Bootstrap::$viewRenderer->getViewScript();