Thread: Disable layout for entire module

Gosh, sometimes one has to ask a question to find an answer himself...
Two minutes after I posted the topic, I found an explanation here: Per Module Zend_Layout | Views From The Hill

You can do it by calling
[PHP]$layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();[/PHP]
in your plugins preDispatch() function and then you can do something like this:
[PHP]
<?php

class Custom_Plugin_Dispatcher extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{

public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$module = $request->getModuleName();
$controller = $request->getControllerName();
$action = $request->getActionName();

$layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();

switch ($controller) {
case 'index':
// use default layout specified in your bootstrap
break;

case 'ajax':
$layout->setLayout('ajax');
break;

case 'error:
$layout->setLayout('error');
break;

default:
$layout->disableLayout();
break;
}
}

public function postDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
}

}

?>
[/PHP]

Hmm, nevertheless, I still have a question: how can I set things like headTitle() in the preDispatch function?
I am trying to do this:
[PHP]
$layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();
$layout->headTitle()->prepend(SITE_TITLE);
$layout->headTitle()->setSeparator(' - ');
[/PHP]
and I get an error

Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_Layout::headTitle() in /*/library/Custom/Plugin/Dispatcher.php on line 16

What am doing wrong?

This turned out to be my own monologue

Luckily I found a solution myself again by reading Zend/Layout.php file.
Here's how my preDispatch function looks now:
[PHP]
public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$module = $request->getModuleName();
$controller = $request->getControllerName();
$action = $request->getActionName();

$layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();
$layout->getView()->headTitle()->prepend(SITE_TITLE);
$layout->getView()->headTitle()->setSeparator(' - ');

switch ($module) {
case 'default':
break;

case 'ajax':
$layout->disableLayout();
break;

default:
break;
}
}
[/PHP]

Hope this helps someone...

saved my day.. thank you!