Question

According to Rob Allen’s tutorial : to use a layout into my zend application I should put:

$response = $this->getResponse();
$response->insert('header', $this->view->render('header.phtml')); 
$response->insert('sidebar', $this->view->render('sidebar.phtml')); 
$response->insert('footer', $this->view->render('footer.phtml')); 

into the init() function of the IndexController, to generate the header,footer and the sidebar for every action.
I would like to use the same layout for all my views, should I put this portion of code into all the controllers??? (I’m using ZF 1.11)

thanks.

Answer 1

You can initialize a zend layout by doing the following in your bootstrap:

Zend_Layout::startMvc();

and you can also specify where your keeping your layouts

$layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();
$layout->setLayoutPath(__PATH_TO_LAYOUT_FOLDER_);

Once that’s in place it will be much more efficient than rendering the same view in all your controllers.