Zend Framework and include files in views

PHP
1

What path do you use for including common files in a ZF view?

An example would be a logo that is going to go on every page. Is there an easy way to include a header.php file in the index.php for a given view? I can’t get it to work at all.

my application structure looks like:

/application
  /controllers
    IndexController.php
  /models
  /views
    /home
       index.php
    /includes
       header.php
/library
  /Zend
/www
  .htaccess
  index.php
  /images

So in the views/home/index.php file, I want to include header.php and I’ll be rendering that page from the IndexController indexAction.

How do I accomplish that?

2

At a guess (and loads left out…)

<?php

class someController
{
    pageAction()
    {
        $view = new Zend_View;
        $indexController = new indexController;
        $view->header = $indexController->indexAction(true);
        // blah blah

        $view->render('home/index.php');
    }
}

?>

(and change your indexAction($return = false) method to use: “if ($return) return $output;”)

or better yet… redesign it so you are not dependant on a controller to create the header, but place the output generation separately.

3

OK, I’m gonna run the risk of sounding stupid here…but I don’t get your code at all. :slight_smile:

Here’s my index controller:

<?php

require_once 'Zend/Controller/Action.php';

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $view = Zend::registry('view');
	echo $view->render('/home/index.php');
    }

    public function noRouteAction()
    {
        $this->_redirect('/');
    }
}

?>

Now, here’s my index.php in the home directory:


<?php
	include 'header.php';
?>
<h4>Home Page</h4>

<?php
	include 'footer.php';
?>

I had to add my include path (/application/controllers/views/includes) to my PHP path for the header/footer to resolve correctly, but it does work.

Is this the correct technique to use when using the Zend framework?

4

you can change to relative includes.

Going by your directory stucture, you can change the includes in index.php to:

include '../includes/header.php';

and like wise for footer :slight_smile:

5

Haven’t toyed with Zend_View, but you should be able to call render() from within a template file, relative to your base path:

<?=$this->render('header.php')?>
 ...
 <?=$this->render('footer.php')?>

BTW, it would be nice to have a configurable template file extension which can be omitted when calling render().

6

That did not work. I thought it would too, but PHP couldn’t find the file.

7

This didn’t work either. I think that in order for Zend_View to find it, I’ve got to set a script path. I’m going to mess around with it a bit, but I’ll just do it the way I got it working before if I have to.

8

Change it to relative from your bootstrap file (i.e. your www/index.php file)

include '../application/views/includes/header.php';

Or to use the render method:

echo $this->render('includes/header.php');
9

Jenk -

thanks! Very nice. Both of those worked. I opted for the latter, but again they both work.

I swear I tried that first one! Oh well, live and learn.

The Zend Framework is exactly what I was looking for in a PHP framework, so its nice to find solutions to these everyday type of problems.