ZF2 widgets/views in layout

Question

I am working on a website where I need a "widget" like view in my layout of Zend Framework 2. the widget should show the operational status of the server (this is done).

(Correct me if this is bad MVC style) I have build a controller with the

function viewStatusAction(){ 
   ... 
   return $viewModel(array($vars))
}

then i want to use a viewHelper to get the status of the action. This is where I'm stuck. I know how to create the viewHelper, but not where to start to get the returned view from the controller action. So how do i do this?

Answer 1

Here is what i did. This should also be the right way to do it

in module.php

public function getViewHelperConfig()
{
    return array(
        'factories' => array(
            'statusWidget' => function ($sm) {
                -- some service handling --
                $statusWidget = new statusWidget($service);
                return $statusWidget;
            }
        )
    );
}

then i created a viewHelper in operationalStatus\View\Helper

<?php
namespace operationalStatus\View\Helper;

use Zend\View\Helper\AbstractHelper;

class statusWidget extends AbstractHelper
{

    public function __construct($service){
        $this->service = $service
    }

    public function __invoke()
    {
        -- collect data from the service --

        return $this->getView()->render('operational-status/widget/status', array('operation' => $status));
    }

}