Comments on: A Zend Framework tutorial, part four

By: Tom Van Schoor

Tom Van Schoor — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:39:22 +0000

One thing i find when using zend framework VMC structure is a problem for designers.

Attaching CSS and IMAGES to your layouts is very easy using baseUrl();?> after you created a helper, BUT, when a designer opens the .phtml layout into his DREAMWEAVER for example, his page finds neither CSS files or IMAGE files. This of course takes away all advantages of a wysiwyg editor!

Therefor i would still suggest to hard-code the absolute path to those files, it doesn’t look pretty or clean, but at least the designer still has his wysiwyg functionality and can design the way he was always used to…

Anyone know of a better solution?

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By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:11:10 +0000

i am a newbie and downloaded ZF 1.5
Please help me if you have a few to spare on this. I am trying to figure it out two days..
I dont know why i am getting this error:
[code]
exception 'Zend_Exception' with message 'At least one error occurred including "User.php"; see includeErrors property' in C:wampwwwtutoriallibZendLoader.php:300
Stack trace:
#0 C:wampwwwtutoriallibZendLoader.php(93): Zend_Loader::_throwIncludeErrors('User.php')
#1 C:wampwwwtutorialapplicationcontrollersBlogController.php(17): Zend_Loader::loadClass('User')
#2 C:wampwwwtutoriallibZendControllerAction.php(499): BlogController->indexAction()
#3 C:wampwwwtutoriallibZendControllerDispatcherStandard.php(242): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('indexAction')
#4 C:wampwwwtutoriallibZendControllerFront.php(927): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
#5 C:wampwwwtutorialindex.php(48): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
#6 {main}
[/code]

By: Rangi

Rangi — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:21:47 +0000

Thanks so much, this is the most useful Zend Framework MVC tutorial I could find by googling around. it’s helped me quickly understand the basics. Strangely, most other tutorials didn’t mention the models part at all. Many thanks for taking the time to write and publish this.

By: isha

isha — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:07:31 +0000

thanks it helps me a lot

By: Naneau

Naneau — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:10:30 +0000

At the moment Xend_Layout is the way to go. ZF 1.1 will include a Layout solution that will in part be based on Xend_Layout. In the meantime it’s a solid implementation that will get you where you want.

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:33:32 +0000

Yes, I did finally find that. I also found Zend_View Enhanced which seems to offer its own similar sort of solution. I’ll read about them both but perhaps you are familiar with the differences between these two already?

By: Naneau

Naneau — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:43:42 +0000

That sometimes happens in #zftalk. Usually the channel is quite busy though and you should be able to get an answer.

Anyway, to answer your question. You may want to have a look at Xend_Layout. It will be included as Zend_Layout in 1.1. It’s a great layout solution written by Ralph Schindler. You can find more about it here:

http://www.spotsec.com/blogs/archive/the-basics-of-zend_layout-ahem-xend_layout.html

download it from Ralph’s SVN:

http://svn.ralphschindler.com/repo/Xend/

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:14:27 +0000

Currently I will have my action method call the index view for that controller. In the action I will set my various properties, then in the index view I will render various standard bits (header, footer, nav, ads, etc.) while calling the page specific properties from the action.

For example: potatoAction of SaladController will set $this->view->first_graph to some html content. It will then render the index view for SaladController. The index view will have a number of calls to render OTHER views (echo $this->render(‘header.phtml’) and echo $this->render(’salad/content.pthml’) for example). content.phtml will render the first_graph property set in potatoAction. This seems clunky to me. Do you have any insight into how to better handle something like this?

p.s. I asked something like this on #zftalk but… erm, no answers at all.