I have my rendition of My_View_Smarty running just fine, and would now like to implement the Zend_Layout with it. When I add Zend_Layout, it throws an error

Fatal error: Call to undefined method My_View_Smarty::addScriptPath() in /path/to/_library/Zend/Layout.php on line 725

I am using the My_View_Smarty (replacing My for Zend) from the ZendView documentation as it is (except the 'My' replacement) and as such there is no method called addScriptPath(). I thought of simply adding one and just doing a parrent::addScriptPath($path) within it, but this extension uses the setScriptPath to set the template directory for Smarty, and I am not sure that is what the original did, so it might not be what should be done in an addScriptPath method.

Any thoughts about what this addScriptPath should do in a situation where adding the Layout functionality to a view based on Smarty?

Thanks for taking the time to consider this. I look forward to all suggestions.

Did you try creating a new view?

$layout = new Zend_Layout();

$layout->addScriptPath();

something like that?

I tried every way in the documentation. I spent a good bit of time on it and I think that at this point I have come to the conclusion that all the pieces under 1.5 have not come together yet, and, with Smarty only having one template path that the concept of adding a path does not fit. I did try to simply replace the path with a new path pointing to the layout.tpl file presuming that it would then just render the layout.tpl with the view's template (actionName.tpl) just being rendered into the $content variable in the layout. But, it seems that all the methods required to do that are part of the view, and creating a smarty_view that implements the view_interface seems to mean that the only methods available are the one defined in the smarty_view, and those are not there. I started out with a solution that extended the view_abstract, but over time was pointed at the implementation solution as being the proper way to do smarty.

I am not sure what would be the best way, all of this ZF stuff is new to me and I do not have the time to try to work it out. I am now doing this without layout at this point, using include files to handle typical layout segments. I may go back to this later, in a refactoring phase.

Thanks for the thoughts though.