Thread: How to customize the layout based on the controller?

to include on a per controller basis, you could use the headScript placeholder that the framework provides in your controllers init() method. There are certainly more complex ways but that seems sufficient if the only stipulation is per controller.

// in Action Controller
public function init(){
// to include a file
$this->view->headScript()->appendFile($filename);
// or to include arbitrary code
$this->view->headScript()->appendScript($scriptStr);

}

The section in the online docs is:
61.4.1.9. HeadScript Helper

cheers.

this is not working I added the two lines to the init of my controller but I couldn't find the JS scripts when the layout was rendered. Any ideas?

Now it is working! I needed to add the following to the layout:
<?php echo $this->headScript() ?>

Thanks for your help!

How did you set up your application so that your controllers share a common layout? I have mine set up so that every controller gets its views from views/scripts/<controller_name>/<view_name>.phtml

But really they are mostly all the same, and I'd like them to access common files, if I can do that without breaking ACL...