This is probably a newbee approach but one thing i dont understand is why in MVC, or at least, in ZF one, the view *should* be distinct for each module/controller/action ?
Say you have a site with 100 or more pages. Most of time, header, footer, etc, most of part will be the same on all pages but middle and sometime few parts like pub skyscraper, sub menu, etc. For all site, you may have about 3 distinct layouts, not much more. And also fews specific pages (no needs of layout for them). As ZF doesn't easily answer to that, there are much discussions about layouts.
Now, if you can tell which view should be used, you have not a view but a layout. In action, you just have to give data to different parts of layout that need it and what parts should be rendered in layout (eg you dont want footer or different one for a given page) . If in bootstrap, you can tell to viewRenderer the view is 'myLayout.phtml', you have set a master layout. Then, you still able to overload the master layout in controller or in action if you need sometime a different one or if you need to use a specific view.
There is almost nothing to modify to ZF to be able to do that. If viewRenderer have a function to force a view, it s quite done.
I did something like this for me, but i didn't subclass viewRenderer as ZF is still in dev. Instead, i lazy set same init function for each controllers.
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