Zend Framework View Helper to Lowercase Titles
When working on a web app, I often find myself with my local development version open in one browser window with the live version open in another. To allow me quickly distinguish one from the other, I like to tweak the rendering in the development version by converting the title to lower case.
Since I have recently begun using Zend Framework for much of my development, I wrote a little view helper to handle it.
class App_View_Helper_HeadTitle extends Zend_View_Helper_HeadTitle
{
public function headTitle($title = null, $setType = Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container_Abstract::APPEND)
{
if (null !== $title && APPLICATION_ENV == 'development'){
$title = strtolower($title);
}
return parent::headTitle($title, $setType);
}
}
To use it, just add the helper path to your bootstrap. For example,you could do it in your config/application.ini with:
resources.view[] = resources.view.helpers.App_View_Helper_ = "App/View/Helper"
The calls to $this->headTitle() in your view scripts or layout scripts remain unchanged.
As a side note, a great repository of Zend Framework snippets is at the aptly named site ZFSnippets.com.
Do you use any similar tricks or snippets in your development? Let me know via the comments.
Cheers!
