same header and footer on every page

dtra · #1 (**permalink**) 06-16-2007, 04:18 AM

hi all

basically, what i did previously was, extend the Zend_View class
and have a display method that would do the following

PHP Code:


			
// just assume the variables are initiated somewhere else
class MY_View extends Zend_View {
 public function display() {
  $this->render($header);
  $this->render($body);
  $this->render($footer);
 }
}

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
 public function indexAction() {
  $view = new My_View();
  $view->display();
 }
}

i'd call the display method from inside the Controller action method
this would save me having to put the same include or render method into all of my templates

with the release of zf 1.0rc1, i wanted to try using the ViewRenderer method of rendering views
but i haven't worked out how to make it automatically render the header and footer, i have followed the example to put all my controllers and views into the standard directory structure

any advice
thanks
dave

SpotSec · #2 (**permalink**) 06-16-2007, 06:29 AM

There are several ways to do this, one is the two step view pattern and the other is a proposed Zend Framework Layout component. The two step view method was described on Maugrim The Reaper's Blog and information about the proposed Zend_Layout can be found on #zftalk (irc://irc.freenode.net/zftalk) where ralphschindler(proposal author) lurks. Zend_Layout does exactly what you want, but it is not an official ZF component just yet... We are hoping it will be included in the next release.

dtra · #3 (**permalink**) 06-17-2007, 01:01 AM

ah ok
i might check out that layout component then, and perhaps wait and see what happens with that
before deciding which way to go

thanks
dave

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