-- James Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Sunday, 27 May 2007, 08:02 AM -0400):
> I'm reading the manual on MVC and playing around a little to see how
> it all works, and one thing I am failing to figure out how to do is
> separation of common items from pages, such as headers, and footers,
> and side bars. Is it possible? If so can someone point me in the
> right direction, and if it is not why? I would expect that separation
> like that is so common in sites that it should be.
You're talking about a Two Step View: get the body content (a rendered
view), and inject it into another view (site template, for example).
I use a dispatchLoopShutdown() plugin to do this. The easiest way is to
pull the content from the response object, inject it into a view, and
then set this rendered content as the response body content. As a
simplified example:
<?php
/** Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract */
require_once 'Zend/Controller/Plugin/Abstract.php';
/**
* Dispatch loop shutdown plugin
*/
class SiteTemplate extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
public function dispatchLoopShutdown()
{
// get view
$viewRenderer =
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getExistingHelper('viewRenderer');
$view = $viewRenderer->view;
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$response = $front->getResponse();
$body = $response->getBody();
$view->content = $body;
$response->setBody($view->render('site.phtml'));
}
}
You'll likely want to modify it a bit, but hopefully you get the general
idea.
> Also,
>
> Say I want to have multiple views, working from the same controllers,
> I see that the "Zend_View_Interface" has a setScriptPath method, how
> would you access this prior to displaying so that you can dynamically
> choose new view scripts but keep the same controllers?
With the view renderer, what I'd do is, in your bootstrap, set a
'sitewide' view script path for view scripts that you want shared across
controllers:
$view = new Zend_View(array('basePath' => '../views'));
Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper(new
Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer($view));
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
