Thanks so much for the detailed response, Matthew, it is very much appreciated.
When Zend_Layout has settled down a bit, will you be working on ZV Enhanced? Regards, Glen. Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote: > > Zend_View Enhanced proposes several new view helpers, principally: > > * Partials > * Placeholders > * Actions > > and a variety of other helpers derived from one or more of them. > Originally it had support for layouts, but that was dropped in favor of > Zend_Layout. > > The ViewRenderer is an integration class between Zend_Controller and > Zend_View; it faciilitates adding view support to your controllers, > creates a configurable way to resolve rendered views to actual view > scripts, and adds inflection support so you don't have to know the full > name of your view script in order to render it (or, truly, to even think > about it). > > Zend_Layout is basically support for Two Step Views; in other words, it > provides a convenient way to wrap your application views in a sitewide > template. It will use the view and inflector in the ViewRenderer to do > its work, as well as the placeholders from the Zend_View enhanced > proposal. > > Incubator is in fluid development; it may change later in the week. ;-) > > I was talking with Ralph about it last week, and he made a good case for > it all being under the same hierarchy. One reason to do so is that this > way you don't accidently call on the layout helper without having first > instantiated the layout object; you typically will need to instantiate > the layout object first so that you can configure things such as the > layout script name, view script path to use, etc. (I'll likely do the > same with the view helper for the same reason.) The other reason is so > that the various layout classes are all grouped. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RFC---miscellaneous-enhancements-tf4743659s16154.html#a13635777 Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
