Question

I feel my problem is relatively simple. I’m new to the Zend framework and I’d like to be able to call a controller to do some work for a header or a footer. I’ve already created a HeaderController and a applications/views/scripts/headers/index.phtml – all I’m trying to do is get that data, and put it in my layout by default.

Everything works if I navigate to /header, by the by.

Edit:

Made some progress – if I add:

$this->render("header/index.phtml");

it renders all the static data, but doesn’t seem to be running the HeaderController.

Answer 1

Try this bit of code out, be sure to disable the layout in your header controller, as the purpose is only to render a limited amount of content.

<?= $this->action('index', 'header', null, array('possible_args'=>'here')); ?>

The documentation can be seen here.

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.helpers.html#zend.view.helpers.initial.action