Hello all,
i recently switched from SmartyView to default Zend_View and Zend_Layout components as i found them really interesting and offer the same functionality as smarty does.

Anyway, i have few questions:

1. How could tell Zend_View not to render action views automatically?
I would like to set by hand what page needs to be rendered in a specific point of the layout.

2. How to set values for placeholders (eg. $this->layout()->somevar in the view) from the controller?

Thanks.

Ok.. it's official...
Every time i post on the forum an help request, i quickly find the solution in a matter of minutes

In the bootstrap i resolved in this way:
and then in the controllers i can output my arbitrary templates in this way:
This is quite simple. I just added this on my controller (and seems to work without problems):
Hope this helps someone who encounters the same problem....

I use to have code in my boot strap that looked for layouts in my layouts directory

Zend_Layout::startMvc(array('layoutPath'=>'../application/layouts'));

Now when I try this on RC1 I get cannot redeclare class ........


<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
date_default_timezone_set('America/Phoenix');

set_include_path('.' . PATH_SEPARATOR . '../library' . PATH_SEPARATOR . './application/default/models/' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
require_once 'Zend/Controller/Front.php';

Zend_Loader::registerAutoload(); // autoloads stuff as we make calls

/**
* Setup controller
*/

$controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$controller->setControllerDirectory('../application/default/controllers');
$controller->throwExceptions(true); // should be turned on in development time

Zend_Layout::startMvc(array('layoutPath'=>'../application/layouts'));

// run!


$controller->dispatch();

--------------------------------------------

I get class Zend_Layout not found.


What new code do I need to load layouts?

I have found clues but have been unable to fix my problem.

Thanks in advance,
Sean

Fixed for some reason when I downloaded Zend Studio for Eclipse it had an old version of ZF.
What is the proper way to update ZF in ZendStudio for Eclipse? It says the variable is reserved.

For stopping Zend_View from auto-rendering, in your controller try this:
$this->_helper->ViewRenderer->setNoRender();

More detail here.

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