Getting Started with Zend Framework (4)—Page Layout

Zend Framework’s page layout module—Zend_Layout—can be used together with MVC or alone. This article only discusses use with MVC.

1. Layout script

Create a layouts folder under application/views. The main layout script layout.phtml code is as follows:
doctype('XHTML1_STRICT') ?>



headTitle() ?>
$this->headLink()- >appendStylesheet("/styles/main.CSS");
// add more links ...
?>
headLink() ?>

partial('header.phtml') ?>

partial('leftcolumn.phtml') ?>

layout()->content ?> < /div>

partial('footer.phtml' ) ?>

In addition to layout.phtml, you also need to write header.phtml, leftcolumn.phtml, footer.phtml, and main.css and other documents.

The documentation of Zend Framework uses a view to represent the application of page layout.

2. Set the page layout

Setting the page layout under MVC is very simple. Edit html/index.php and add the following two lines of code:

/**Setuplayout*/
require_once 'Zend/Layout.php' ;
Zend_Layout::startMvc($rootPath . '/application/views/layouts');

Note: After starting the page layout, you need to adjust the existing pages and remove unnecessary html elements, such as