Paulo Nei wrote an email to fw-general which is, I suspect a very common issue that people are going to run into:
Hi,I wanna put header & footer in all view templates.
But with ZF I don't got an easy way to do it
...
At the moment, the Zend Framework doesn't have an "officially blessed" solution, so there are multiple approaches being used:
1. Front Controller plug-in.
http://www.nabble.com/Controller-and-View-Question-tf3462561.html
2. Zend_Layout proposal.
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Layout
3. Zend_View Enhanced proposal.
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=33071
4. Extend ViewRenderer directly.
http://akrabat.com/2007/06/02/extending-viewrenderer-for-layouts/
The wiki is down again, so I could have got the links to 2 and 3 wrong!
At the moment, I'm using (4) as it's simple. It does introduce problems if you want to use _forward() though, so if you are an _forward() person, then 1, 2 or 3 are better choices.
Update (04/Sep/2007): Also: http://www.spotsec.com/blogs/archive/the-basics-of-zend_layout-ahem-xend_layout.html
