Hello,
Actually i believe for big sites not just Zend_View is more complex, but
also Controller-Action model is not very suitable...
For a simple application, or for a simple CMS yeah, news/add
news/view news/delete aso are all what we need but for more complex
situations...
If we are talking about multiple reusable zones over one page then we
may talk also about multiple actions and controllers/page... And so on...
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Best regards,
Cristian Bichis
www.zftutorials.com | www.zfforums.com | www.zflinks.com
Hi all,
I've been having one of those long discussions about implementing the
Zend Framework in a sample application (sort of an exercise a few of
us are doing to improve our own practices and knowledge of working
with the ZF ;)).
When we came to rendering a web page, we assumed there would be lots
of reuseable widgets and elements included - not all that far fetched
really. The problem is that Zend_View isn't all that cooked up for the
task. I tried finding some references to a current practice but all I
seem to find is references to using a controller's _forward() method
to switch in and out of other controllers (which grab the Model and
View for reusable elements of a webpage).
I'm not sure I follow the logic of this - it seems to be something
that becomes prohibitively more complex the more reusable elements are
added - not to mention controller to controller knowledge is basically
coupling and seems more a case of an afterthought system than
something deliberate - especially unless it follow some configurable
pattern to dynamically build layouts.
Has anyone found, or can recommend, a simple easy to implement
practice? As it stands our discussion has leaned towards introducing
Layouts and subclassing Zend_View to introduce the Composite View
pattern (and possibly View Helpers to allow Views access the Model
read-only style). I can't find anything at present which offers a more
elegant solution for introducing reusable elements into an overall View.
Hopefully the wizards occupying this mailing list have some ideas :).
Best regards,
Pádraic
Pádraic Brady
http://blog.astrumfutura.com
http://www.patternsforphp.com
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