The other day I was pointed at
http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-tutorial/
Look on page 9. It seems to talk about rendering header and footers,
but I would think that you can also render other common aspects using
this method as well.
James
On May 29, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Kevin McArthur wrote:
Surely, nested templates will have some sort of built-in basic
functionality. I dont know many PHP developers who use templates
like they're a series of concatenated strings. It just doesn't jive
with the nested nature of html.
Most PHP apps follow a standard/shared layout approach; so whats
the 'framework' way of handling common elements now? render header,
content, footer?
Kevin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <fw-general@lists.zend.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [fw-general] ViewRenderer and nested templates
Kevin McArthur wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to upgrade several sites to 1.0 but my sites tend to
use a
main template (engine.tpl) plus a set of sub templates
(actionName.tpl)
(menu.tpl) etc... it seems fairly evident how to sub-render, but
with
outer most template always being the same file, how do you set
this with
the view renderer's automatic actions to set the $view->content
variable
to the actionName template automatically.
Currently, I'm exploring extending ViewRender's renderScript() to do
something similar.
My first attempt looks like this:
class My_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer
extends Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer
{
public function renderScript($script, $name = null)
{
if (null === $name) {
$name = $this->getResponseSegment();
}
$content = $this->view->render($script);
$this->view->content = $content;
$layoutTemplate = 'site.tpl.php';
$this->getResponse()->appendBody(
$this->view->render($layoutTemplate),
$name
);
$this->setNoRender();
}
}
I also have:
$viewRenderer = new My_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer();
$viewRenderer->setViewSuffix('tpl.php');
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);
in my bootstrap before I first instantiate the front controller,
so that
my ViewRenderer is used.
Regards,
Rob...
