lightflowmark wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to achieve the following and having real difficulty in seeing how
it should work:
1) have a global layout using Zend_Layout which renders some
common-to-all-actions stuff - a header, a menu, a footer. The 'main action'
is then rendered to layout()->content.
2) have the 'main action' render some widget actions to placeholders within
its view script.
So if I have the following
IndexController:
menuAction
headerAction
indexAction
widgetAction
anotherWidgetAction
layout.phtml:
<?= $this->layout()->header ?>
<?= $this->layout()->menu ?>
<?= $this->layout()->content ?>
index.phtml:
<? //I want widgetAction content rendered here ?>
<? //I want anotherWidgetAction content rendered here ?>
When I go to /index/index, menuAction and headerAction are called by the
ActionStack and rendered at the appropriate placeholders in layout.phtml by
Zend_Layout.
Then I want indexAction to call widgetAction and anotherWidgetAction and
render them to placeholders within index.phtml.
What is the best way of achieving this? I am adding widgetAction &
anotherWidgetAction to the ActionStack in indexAction, but how do I render
them to placeholders in index.phtml?
Hi Mark,
You're on the right track.
In your layout:
<?= $this->layout()->widget ?>
In your index controller:
$this->render('widget', 'widget');
This will cause the views/scripts/index/widget.phtml script to be
rendered into the segment with the same name in the layout. Note that
the segment's name need not be the same as the script's name.
hth,
Mike Wright
