Zend: Custom View helpers

Question 1

The answer you provided doesn't seem to make much sense, if you are saying you added <?php to the top of the file where your class is written, all I can say is "Welcome to PHP!" otherwise the following may help in the future... or not.

Using the master application.ini from feibeck as a reference, I came up with:

//excerpt from application.ini
resources.view.helperPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/views/helpers"
resources.view.helperPathPrefix = "My_View_Helper"

however you are using the defaults for the MVC so you shouldn't require any config at all.

This may be a case of too much config.

That being said: I've never been a fan of setting view options in the application.ini as I'm never quite sure of what effect I should expect (am I adding or setting an option?). I much prefer to setup the view in the bootstrap as most of the methods used are more verbose and tell a more complete story:

//bootstrap.php
protected function _initView()
    {
        //Initialize view
        $view = new Zend_View();
        //add custom view helper path
        $view->addHelperPath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library/My/View/Helper');
        //add custom script path for partials
        $view->addScriptPath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/../library/My/View/Scripts/');
        //set css includes, path is relative to /public
        $view->headlink()->setStylesheet('/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css');
        //add javascript files, path is relative to /public
        $view->headScript()->setFile('/bootstrap/js/jquery.min.js');
        $view->headScript()->appendFile('/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js');
        //add it to the view renderer
        $viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper(
                'ViewRenderer');
        $viewRenderer->setView($view);
        //Return it, so that it can be stored by the bootstrap
        return $view;
    }

Hope this provides some help.

Question 2

The class name should be My_View_Helper_LoggedInAs, since that's what you declared as your namespace in application.ini. The Zend namespace is only for ZF classes.

Question 3

I fixed it with a strange solution, since I can't find anything like this on internet. I just added <?PHP at the beginning of application/views/helpers/LoggedInAs.php