-- David Di Biase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Friday, 02 May 2008, 05:40 PM -0400):
> 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?
No, no... You have to attach a view *in addition* to those.
> 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?
When not using the MVC, Zend_Layout doesn't make much sense *except*
that it allows you to register content in placeholders within your other
view scripts *and* specifies a separate directory for the layout view
scripts that supercedes any other view scripts. Other than that, doing
two step views is entirely possible by simply re-using your view object.
Two Step View makes most sense in an application where your content is
being generated in separate processes from your layout -- typically
because your view object goes out of scope. In a procedural script, it
makes less sense.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
