Comments on: Zend MVC Screencasts: Zend Layout, Controller, View and Db

By: Robert Kraig

Robert Kraig — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:22:26 +0000

I can’t seem to find your Part 2 of your tutorial on setting up the db portion with the form posting etc.

By the way, i appreciate your screencasts great deal.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:42:03 +0000

Hi rags,

you could just use include_once(‘layout.phtml’); if you wanted it to echo as is. Alternatively, you could write a view helper for part of the layout and include it as a plugin. There’s a tutorial on Zendcasts that I believe covers this.

By: rags

rags — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:06:57 +0000

haii jon
I want to use include in layout.phtml to include another file,
could you please let me know how to use it.

By: lkimme

lkimme — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:42:31 +0000

Thanks Jon, I was omitting the ‘/’. It works fine now.

Thanks again.

By: jon

jon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:32:54 +0000

Hi Ikimme,

you could try just using the ‘/’ (absolute path) as a starting point if your application is sitting on the root of your domain. another way is to use the $this->getBaseUrl() accessor as a way of making your paths absolute for loading images etc… you could look at this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2302091/gettingstartedwithzendframework-150 as a way of doing it. Another way is just to set a variable in your registry with your absolute path and then call it using Zend_Registry::get(‘mypath’) or whatever.

Good Luck!

By: lkimme

lkimme — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:07:52 +0000

Hi Jon, I like your screencasts a lot. Very, very helpful to me.
I’ve developed a problem when I try to use my layout.phtml file from a controller/subAction.
My layout.phtml file works fine if I try to render from a controller/indexAction function, but when I try to display from a controller/non-indexAction function the css files and image files that I link to all fail.

I am including files in my controller/init() method like this:

$response->insert(‘header’, $this->view->render(‘header.phtml’));

Again, it works fine in the controller/indexAction function, but not in the controller/non-indexAction function.

Thanks for any help.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:26:10 +0000

great video! helped a ton!

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:11:27 +0000

Hi Mahmet, in the layout.phtml file, I'm assuming that you're running the Zend Framework project on the document root: this may not be the case for you. Worse comes to worse, I would suggest using a tool like the firefox web developer toolbar and view the CSS to see if its loaded. Good luck!

By: Mehmet Ali

Mehmet Ali — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:41:10 +0000

I have problem in this tutorial on Part – 2.
On time 02:01, there has been created a new.phtml file, and a link in article. But when I click to that link, o manually enter the http:/articlemanager/article/new to address bar, I can see the header and footer control but CSS doesn’t applied.

What is the problem???
Thanks.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:37:25 +0000

Hi Ici,

looks like you’re missing index.phtml in the views/scripts/index/ folder

just create one… I’ll have to include that in my example.

also make sure that you have Options All set in your vhosts configration.

Good luck James!