Hello, I've got myself a bit confused, maybe someone can clarify this for me.
Some background: I've got variables in my actions that I would like to pass to my layout. Currently I'm doing this ... In my actionController, ---> $this->view->noContentBorder = true; In the view template for that action, ---> $this->placeholder('noContentBorder')->set($this->noContentBorder); And then in the layout it's something like, --> if (isset($this->noContentBorder) && $this->noContentBorder == true) {... Ok, so I'm wanting to remove the place holder because there are a few views that have only placeholders for forwarding them to the layout template. I tried this in the actionController, --> Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->assign('noContentBorder',true); However, it doesn't seem to work ... I looked at the assign function in the layout, simply put it assigned the variable to an array... -- $this->_container[$spec] = $value; In the render function, the comments say - * assigns layout variables to view,... But, I do not see where the variables from the $this->_container are assigned to the layout view that is rendered ... What am I missing ... Terre ~ snip render function from zend/layout.php /** * Render layout * * Sets internal script path as last path on script path stack, assigns * layout variables to view, determines layout name using inflector, and * renders layout view script. * * $name will be passed to the inflector as the key 'script'. * * @param mixed $name * @return mixed */ public function render($name = null) { if (null === $name) { $name = $this->getLayout(); } if ($this->inflectorEnabled() && (null !== ($inflector = $this->getInflector()))) { $name = $this->_inflector->filter(array('script' => $name)); } $view = $this->getView(); if (null !== ($path = $this->getViewScriptPath())) { if (method_exists($view, 'addScriptPath')) { $view->addScriptPath($path); } else { $view->setScriptPath($path); } } elseif (null !== ($path = $this->getViewBasePath())) { $view->addBasePath($path, $this->_viewBasePrefix); } return $view->render($name); }