Hi Stephan, It's good to see another high level effort breaking the mold. I'd love to see the code involved :).
Regards, Pádraic Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephan Stapel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dinh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Zend Framework General <fw-general@lists.zend.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 6:33:57 PM Subject: Re: [fw-general] Implementing complex Views with ZF Hi Dinh, > It is excellent, Stephan. It is a really good Composite View > implementation. Could you share something on how you design it? yes, sure. That's why I posted it :) I currently use a programmatic description for the layout, it is stored into so-called containers which are built of frames which in turn might contain further (sub) containers or portlets. It basically looks like this: $container = new ContainerModel(ContainerModel::VERTICAL); $container->addFrame("topmenu", "TopMenu", ContainerModel::MAXSIZE); $subcontainer = new ContainerModel(ContainerModel::HORIZONTAL, $container); $subcontainer->addFrame("mainspace", null, ContainerModel::MAXSIZE); $container->addChild("contentspace", $subcontainer, ContainerModel::MAXSIZE); As mentioned before, containers might be presented horizontally or vertically. The addFrame() command is passed the frame identifier, the portlet controller name (might be null) and the sizing. The rendering is done using the container controller: $controller = new ContainerController($container); $controller->setRequestResponse($this->_request, $this->_response); which is passed to the view. In the view.tpl.php file, echo $this->containerController->render(); is called. Using the php DOM parser, I'm replacing all hyperlinks in the portlets' html output. That's about it :) The implementation however is far from being complete. For example there is only a limited number of error checks implemented currently, also frame size is only supported in a limited why as I'm using tables for layouting. div sections are probably better but not yet have time for this :/ I'll send the code and the demo in a separate email to not overload the mailing list. If someone should also please interested, just drop me a message. I'd love other people using it, improving the code and sending the improvements back :) Regards, Stephan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
