Question

In my application i have the following classic template on 3 columns

*********************************************************
*                                                       *
*                                                       *
*********************************************************
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
* sidea  *         content               *    sideb     *
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
*        *                               *              *
*********************************************************
*                                                       *
*                                                       *
*********************************************************

Where the header and sideb are similar for the most part of the site (side b contents depends on the user’s state so they need to be rendered dynamicaly), and sidea & content changing for every controller.

Since I’m new to ZF (1.9), I have some difficulties to implement such setting, where script views reuse common methods (for the sideb), and there is 3 different places for dynamic contents injection. Can somebody hint any tutorial/code example?

Thanks in advance.

Edit

After some more deeper reader of zend_layout documentation and some other links (i.e. this post) i found out that i should concentrate my research in direction of Composite View pattern for zend framework, in particular Zend_View_helper_partial. Probably following two links can give me a hand (and to other folks searching the same thing)

Link 1
Link 2

Answer 1

Looks like you need a layout. Have a look at the Zend_Layout doc page and see if that achieves what you want.

Check out this webinar for info on what’s possible with Zend_Layouts