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Asked: 2026-06-03T07:41:22+00:00

My zend layout and scripts are detecting fine. but when in init function of

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My zend layout and scripts are detecting fine. but when in init function of my IndexController I write $this->view->render(“header.phtml”) It does not show anything one the screen, whereas when I write echo ($this->view->render(“header.phtml”); it displays my header.phtml file. Here is my IndexController

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

public function init()
{
    $layout = $this->_helper->layout();
    //$this->view = $this->getResource('View');
    echo ($this->view->render("header.phtml"));
        //echo"<pre>";
        //var_dump($this->view);
        //var_dump(APPICATION_PATH);
}

public function indexAction()
{
    // action body
    echo "In default index con";
}

}

Also when Igive my url to/mypath/index It does not display the simple line “I’m in index controller” which I’m just echoing. In my bootstrap here is my Zend_Layout settings.

        Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_View');
$this->view = new Zend_View();
$this->view->setEncoding('UTF-8');
$this->view->setScriptPath($this->root .'/application/default/views/scripts');
    $viewRenderer=new Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer();
     // Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);
     // $view->setScriptPath($this->root.'/'.$theme.'/views/scripts/');
     //$view->setScriptPath($this->root.'/application/default/views/scripts/');
     $this->view->addScriptPath($this->root.'/application/admin/views/scripts');
     $this->view->addScriptPath($this->root.'/application/business/views/scripts');
    // $this->view->setHelperPath($this->root .'/application/default/views/helpers');
     $this->layout = Zend_Layout::startMvc(
        array(
                'layoutPath' => $this->root . '/application/default/views/'.$crt_theme.'/layouts',
                'layout' => 'layout'
                )
                );
        $this->registry->set("theme", $crt_theme);

variable $crt_theme is set to ‘default’.

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  1. Editorial Team

    render() is working as intended; it returns a string that you should then echo.

    It is very unusual to be rendering directly in a controller however. At a minimum, you should be rendering your header and footer from views/scripts/index/index.phtml, though using Zend_Layout would be even better. If you are using Zend_Application, then you can start using Zend_Layout simply by adding: 

    resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts/"

    to your application/config/application.ini file. You then need to create a application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml file which could look something like this:

    <?php
$this->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8');
$this->headTitle()->setSeparator(' - ');
$this->headTitle('My website');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> 
<head>
    <?php echo $this->headMeta(); ?> 
    <?php echo $this->headTitle(); ?>
    <!-- Other <head> elements and view helpers here -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
    <?php echo $this->layout()->content; ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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