Zend Framework: Render multiple Views in one Layout
zend-framework, zend-view
Solution
First advice is to avoid the Action view helper at all costs, it will probably be removed in ZF 2.0 anyway. (ZF-5840) (Why the actionstack is evil)
This is related to a question I asked - and bittarman's answer is pretty useful. The best way to implement something like that is to have a view helper that can generate your "login" area. `My_View_Helper_Login` for instance. Then your layout can call `$this->login()`, and so can the view script for `user/login`. As far as having `index/index` render the content from `news/list` just forward the request to the other controller/action from the controller. `$this->_forward('list', 'news');`
Problem
I want to generate a dynamic site using Zend_Layout. My layout (/application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml) contains the following lines: ``` ... <body> <?php echo $this->render('header.phtml') ?> <div id="content"><?php echo $this->layout()->content ?></div> <?php echo $this->render('footer.phtml') ?> </body> ... ``` If i browse to my index controller index action - Zend renders the index view (application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml) inside of $this->layout()->content automatically. Now i want to render the views of to different controller actions in the layout. So i generate a new controller auth with an action login that shows a login form. I change my layout to: ``` ... <body> <?php echo $this->render('header.phtml') ?> <div id="content"><?php echo $this->layout()->content ?></div> <div id="login"><?php echo $this->layout()->login ?></div> <?php echo $this->render('footer.phtml') ?> </body> ... ``` When i browse to index/index, i want to define in this action that zend should render auth/login view inside $this->layout()->login and for example news/list inside of $this->layout()->content. index/index is than a kind of a page layout - and auth/login and news/list a kind of widget How to do this?