Actually it's quite easy to change the directory layout for the views. Just create an instance of the ViewRenderer-helper and call the setViewScriptPathSpec method with your desired file / directory format.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alan T. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 17:55 An: [email protected] Betreff: [fw-general] my 2 cents on views in the ZF MVC Is it just me or is the way in which the Front Controller implements views going to have to change? I understand maybe there was a reason for making certain assumptions about how people are going to use the MVC framework, but I have been following this list for a few weeks now and it seems there are a lot of people unhappy with the way in which the views currently work, and it seems just as many have had problems implementing and understanding it. I followed it off the documentation myself and gave it a whack and it stumped me for a while. It seemed there were also some 11th hour changes that are not so well documented which makes the whole thing confusing. I had just decided until this issue had been hammered out, or some better documentation outlining how this all works came out, I would continue using my own MVC style code I developed for myself, however this is not to say I am not excited about the possibilities with the MVC in ZF. In my way of doing things, and maybe this is not the best way and if someone can enlighten me on this more, I would love to hear it, but my controllers basically set up everything a view needs. and then will inject those content variables into the view, render that view into a variable and then I can choose to cache it, print it to the screen or whatever. It appears to me that if you want to use the front controller, you have to basically accept the way in which the current implementation takes over and assumes you are printing out to the screen. But more than this, the current view controller assumes a directory structure for views that just seems excessive. I for one am not so excited about having to have so many nested directories for my views. As someone who often edits a number of template files, I can say it is a real pain in the ass to jump around in so many directories, when it could be just as easy to have implemented something where a file naming convention was used instead. This way you could have your views in one place? Also, perhaps coming from using Smarty as a template engine where I would lay out a page using a number of nested templates and variables, I would welcome an example or two of how to accomplish such a feat using the MVC in ZF.
