I'm struggling with the some problem. I am currently planning my CMS, and for now I think I am going to stick as well with just the two module - site & admin.

The thing I am wondering is what to do with some of the directives in my bootstrap file.

I am initializing Zend_Layout MVC helper with something like this:

Zend_Layout::startMvc(array('layoutPath' => ROOT_DIR.'/application/views/layouts'));

Which works great if you are nor using module.

As far as I can tell, there is only one right way to do it, and that is to write your own front controller plugin that will set the appropriate path, see http://www.nabble.com/Setup-Zend_Layout-based-on-module-td16036883.html

There is some more insight in a comment from Matthew Weier O'Phinney on http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Layout#Zend_Layout-3.ComponentRequirements%2CConstraints%2CandAcceptanceCriteria that kind of clarifies why this Zend_Layout isn't coupled with a rewrite router.

But, I would still be very happy if I could specify layout folder in the same way I can specify a modular structure by passing an array of modules/paths.

Do you maybe have some other ideas?

Not yet. I haven't had time, so have been using two modules: default and admin.

Regards,

Rob…

Putting the admin within the module keeps everything together which is the biggest win. I quite like the idea of using a rewrite rule so that I can use URLs of the form /admin/{module}/{controller}/{action}.

I’ll definitely have to play with this layout.
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Have you figured out how you should write this rewrite rule?
I am currently implementing an admin-subdirectory too in my controllers directory, and /module/admin/controller/action is just more beautiful than /module/admin_controller/action…

$view->addScriptPath('../application/moduleLocation/views');
and executed this in my index.php

I see the post by Kyle
"If I want different models with each module then I have a Zend_Controller plugin that adds to the include path using something like: “..app/”.$request->getModuleName().”/models/”
"

I suppose there isn't a getModuleName() function already?

I'll work on this. Thanks for your comments.

Any thoughts?

Fixed the pre tag :)

Regards,

Rob…

If I want different models with each module then I have a Zend_Controller plugin that adds to the include path using something like: "..app/".$request->getModuleName()."/models/"

If you want to use shared models then just setup a fixed dir directly in the bootstrap as it's done in Rob's tutorial. Then maybe you could even start "modularising" your models? Your Admin_News model would extend Deafault_News and so on.

app/
    cfg/
    logs/
    models/
        admin/
        default/
    modules/
        admin/
            controllers/
            views/
        default/
            controllers/
            views/
    tmp/
lib/
    Zend/
www/
    index.php

I'm not really sure where to put things like headers and footers if you have two or more modules using the same ones. Right now they're just in the modules directory but it's not neat.

There will never be a directory structure to suit everyone or even one to suit every project by the same person.