Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -- David Di Biase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Friday, 02 May 2008, 04:02 PM -0400):
> > I'm pretty much a complete noob when it comes to ZF. I've been a
> procedural PHP
> > developer for about 1-2 years. I'm dabbling in ZF though right now I
> think it
> > best to refrain using the full MVC model in my work. Mostly b/c I don't
> feel
> > comfortable with it at the moment.
> >
> > So I've gone ahead and attempted to use Zend_Layout without MVC and it
> appears
> > that there isn't much useful documentation on it. Which makes it painful
> for me
> > to learn :-/
> >
> > I most likely have made a mistake/overlooked something but this is what
> I've
> > done.
> >
> > I've created my configuration include class as such:
> >
> > require_once 'Zend/Layout.php';
> > $layout = new Zend_Layout();
> > $layout->setLayoutPath("{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/layout/")
> > ->setLayout("main");
> >
> > I've placed main.phtml in /layout/ and in my index.php scrip I've
> attempted
> > echo $layout->render(); but I keep getting this error:
> >
> > Fatal error: Class 'Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker' not found in
> /Users/
> > ddibiase/Documents/workspace/testzend/lib/Zend/Layout.php on line 505
>
> What's going on is that Zend_Layout is looking for a view object with
> which to do its rendering; by default, if none is registered with
> Zend_Layout, it looks in the ViewRenderer action helper for one... which
> is where this error is occurring. I'll enter an issue in the tracker to
> explicitly load the HelperBroker when this happens.
>
> For you, what you need to do is create a view object and attach it to
> your layout object:
>
> require_once 'Zend/View.php';
> $view = new 'Zend/View.php';
> $layout->setView($view);
>
> and you should be good.
Haha, forgive me but I'm still uber confused. I thought the two lines I have
there:
$layout->setLayoutPath("{$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/layout/")
->setLayout("main");
Were meant to first specify a directory of my layout files then setLayout
would register which view file to use. So if I'm understanding you, instead
I have to initialise the view and attach it directly?
Oh man. lol. My head is spinning.
What's the advantage of using layout then? I could just use Zend_View,
create three objects for my header, footer and content.
I could probably even just contain the headers in partials for that matter?
> <snip>
>
> > I'm also wondering as a second part that now I'm able to render the
> layout, I
> > also want to include parts into the content and nav sections.
> Furthermore I
> > want to do this via Zend_View. From what I read in the documentation I
> can use
> > layout to initiate a view specific for my current page. So I'm assuming
> that I
> > create the view and then before I render and echo out the full layout I
> set the
> > ->content value with my view render like this:
> >
> > $layout->content = $view->render();
> >
> > Does this make sense? Have I understand it properly?
>
> Yes, that works. :-)
>
> > I would love to just read documentation and do this myself, but all of
> > the ZF work seems to be tightly connected to MVC. :-/
>
> Feel free to write up an example for inclusion to the documentation. :-)
>
> While Zend_Layout was designed such that it can be used without the MVC,
> the focus was on using it *with* it, so docs supporting non-MVC use
> cases were not a priority. If you'd like to help with the effort, please
> submit your CLA, and we'll get you setup to contribute. :-)
>
> --
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
>
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David Di Biase
