Topic: ZEND: Strict Standards, Creating default object from empty value?

[littlevisuals]

Hi everyone im am currently getting the following error

Strict Standards: Creating default object from empty value in /Users/name/Sites/websiteX/application/controllers/ArtistsController.php on line 40

my layout is like this

-views/
         /scripts
                    /artists
                              /index.phtml
                    /index
                             /index.phtml

In the IndexController I have used the same code in the ArtistsController.  The path index/index works perfectly but the artists/index throws the error code.

Here is the Controller

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<?php

/**
 * Description of ArtistsController
 *
 * @author 
 */
class ArtistsController extends Zend_Controller_Action {

   /**
    * accessing our session variable
    * @var Zend_Session_Namespace
    */
   protected $session;

   public function preDispatch()
   {
       $this->session = new Zend_Session_Namespace('Default');



   }

   public function loadModel($class, $module = null)
    {
        $modelDir = $this->getFrontController()->getModuleDirectory($module)
                       . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'models';
        Zend_Loader::loadClass($class, $modelDir);

        // if we got here - then file is included
        return $class;
    }



   public function init()
   {
         $uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;
$activeNav->setClass("active");
      
   }

  public function indexAction()
   {


   }

It says line 40 is here

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   public function init()
   {
        $uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;
$activeNav->setClass("active");
     
   }
Which calls the navigation.xml file.  It works in the IndexController but not the ArtistsController?

Can anybody explain what im doing wrong?  many thanks!