Zend Layout

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Contents 1 Zend_Layout 1.1 Setup in the bootstrap 1.2 Directory structure 1.3 The Layout file 1.4 What it would look like in the controller 1.5 What it would look like inside the view file

[edit] Zend_Layout

[edit] Setup in the bootstrap

// setup layouts
require_once 'Zend/Layout.php';
Zend_Layout::startMvc(array('layoutPath' => '../application/views/layouts'));

[edit] Directory structure

Then my directory structure would be like this:

../application
      /views
           /helpers
           /layouts
                layout.phtml
           /scripts
                auth/ (rest of the auth view files)
                dummy/ (rest of the dummy view files)
                error/ (rest of the error view files)
                index/ (rest of the index view files)
                sidebar.phtml

[edit] The Layout file

My Layout file would look something like this:

//application/views/layouts/layout.phtml
< html >
< head >
    < title ><?php echo $this->escape(Zend_Registry::get('appName')); ?>< / title >
    < link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseUrl(); ?>/styles.css" type="text/css">
< / head >
< body >
    < div id="content">
        <?php echo $this->layout()->content ?>
    < / div>
    < div id="sidebar">
        <?php echo $this->layout()->sidebar; ?>
    < / div>
< / body>
< / html>

The sidebar.phtml is will just be like this:

//application/views/scripts/sidebar.phtml
<pre>
< h2 >Sidebar< / h2>
< ul>
< li>Item 1</ li>
< li>Item 2</ li>
< li>Item 3</ li>
< li>Item 4</ li>
< li>Item 5</ li>
< / ul>

[edit] What it would look like in the controller

My controller would look something like this:

<?php
//application/controllers/indexController.php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    protected $_flashMessenger = null;

    public function init() {

        // Render sidebar for every action
        $response = $this->getResponse();
        $response->insert('sidebar', $this->view->render('sidebar.phtml'));

        //To change the layout:
        //$this->_helper->layout()->setLayout('layout2');

        $this->_flashMessenger = $this->_helper->getHelper('FlashMessenger');
        $this->initView();
        $this->view->baseUrl = $this->_request->getBaseUrl();
        $this->view->messages = $this->_flashMessenger->getMessages();
    }

    public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->view->pageTitle = "My First Web Page";
    }
}

[edit] What it would look like inside the view file

My view file for the controller above would look something like this:

//application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml


<h1><?php echo $this->pageTitle ;?></h1>
<p>Look no HTML Headers and Footers!</p>