To maintain a consistent look and feel through out your website, Zend_Layout provides layout facility by which you can create single or multiple document structures as like as templates.
Enabling Zend_Layout means informing bootstrap to use Layout resource. You can enable layout with the help of zf cli tools from terminal as:
$ zf enable layout
Layout has been enabled, and a default layout created at application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml. A layout entry has been added to the application config file.
With the above command you will have following things ready:
– application/configs/application.ini is updated; contains following line at your production section
resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts"
– A layout file created at /application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml
Also you need to initialize the View resource; add the following line to your have application/configs/application.ini
; Add to [production] section: resources.view[] =
Now to run view resource we will add just a little code at bootstrap:
class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap {
protected function _initView(){
$this->bootstrap('view');
$view = $this->getResource('view');
$view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT'); //can set the doc type here
}
}
Now Zend_Layout is ready to go; may modify the layout or add some styles. Just don’t forget to echo your content i.e. $this->layout()->content at your layout body to display your content or view html segments:
<!-- application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml --> <?php echo $this->doctype() ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>my title</title> </head> <body> <?php echo $this->layout()->content ?> </body> </html>
It’s a go!
if you need to use multiple layouts, you may read my next post on multiple layout usage
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