Comments on: Testing Zend Framework Action Controllers With Mocks

By: Federico

Federico — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:45:28 +0000

You have to set the default controller.

By: ezee

ezee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:22:28 +0000

Hi. First of all, great article. However, I’m having trouble setting a new Dispatcher. When I try to set one I am getting the message, “No default module defined for this application”.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:50 +0000

Yes, I had the same issue and it was solved by doing exactly what Michelangelo said :)

By: Michelangelo van Dam

Michelangelo van Dam — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:08:25 +0000

@Karl,

I have experienced this too a couple of times when using ZF 1.8 series. I managed to bypass this exception by setting the “default” controllers and views directory in APPLICATION_PATH “/application”, although I had a default module specified within the APPLICATION_PATH “/modules” directory.

Hope this works for you as well, but I strongly suggest to upgrade to 1.9.x if it’s possible.

By: Karl Purkhardt

Karl Purkhardt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:40:43 +0000

Hi. First of all, great article. However, I’m having trouble setting a new Dispatcher. When I try to set one I am getting the message, “No default module defined for this application”. Could you provide an example of how you setup your new Dispatcher?

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By: Federico

Federico — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:28:44 +0000

Thanks :)

By: Michelangelo van Dam

Michelangelo van Dam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:34:56 +0000

Very nice example of mocking action controllers.

Great job !

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By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:58:35 +0000

It is indeed useful to mock the render() method to avoid having to write a view script only to query it, even if I strive for thin controllers that delegates to domain layer.
What I miss here and more generally in Zend Framework is a dependency injection container, since I would naturally define the dependencies of the controller in its constructor. This way I would only need to instantiate the controller class to test it and call its methods.