What's the best pratice to use tools function with Zend Framework

Question

I'm currently on a Zend project, i create a controller named company , where i created many action. Now i want to code some utils function, they will be only used in one action of my controller let's say nameAction .

Here is what i did :

class CompanyController extends Zend_Controller_Action {

    public function nameAction( $name = null ) {

        function get_inner_html( $node ) {
            // Some code goes here
            return $html;
        }

        function check_if_social_account($url) {
          // Some code goes here
            return $social_account;
        }

     // Here is the main code of my controller


    }

}

This code works well, but out some function into a funvtion is a little weird no?

Where should i put these tools functions get_inner_html & check_if_social_account , in the CompanyController as private functions? In a separate files ?

Answer 1

If this functions will be used in other class, extract it to another class. If not create private methods in your controller class.