Zend Framework provides the following Dojo-specific view helpers: dojo(): setup the Dojo environment for your page, including dojo configuration values, custom module paths, module require statements, theme stylesheets, CDN usage, and more. To use Dojo view helpers, you will need to tell your view object where to find them. You can do this by calling addHelperPath(): addHelperPath('Zend/Dojo/View/Helper/', 'Zend_Dojo_View_Helper'); ]]> Alternately, you can use Zend_Dojo's enableView() method to do the work for you: