Module configuration and layout configuration in zend framework

zend-framework

Solution

I use plugin approach with this code I have written:

in main Bootstrap:

protected function _initPlugins()
{
        // Access plugin
        $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance(); 
        $front->registerPlugin(new MyApp_Plugin_Module());
}

In plugin directory:

class MyApp_Plugin_Module extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{

    public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {

        $module = $request->getModuleName();
        $layout = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance();

        // check module and automatically set layout
        $layoutsDir = $layout->getLayoutPath();
        // check if module layout exists else use default
        if(file_exists($layoutsDir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $module . ".phtml")) {
            $layout->setLayout($module);
        } else {
            $layout->setLayout("default");
        }
}

Hope it helps.

Problem

I got some codes from other articles for configuring module and layout in zend framework. I tried with in my local. i didn't get different layout for default and admin module. Here is my code for configuring module and layout for zend framework. configs/application.ini ``` [production] # Debug output phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0 phpSettings.display_errors = 0 # Include path includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library" # Bootstrap bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php" bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap" admin.bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules/admin/Bootstrap.php" admin.bootstrap.class = "admin_Bootstrap" # Front Controller resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers" resources.frontController.env = APPLICATION_ENV # Session resources.session.name = "ZendSession" resources.session.save_path = APPLICATION_PATH "/../data/session" resources.session.remember_me_seconds = 86400 # Layout resources.layout.layout = "layout" resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts" admin.resources.layout.layout = "admin" admin.resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules/admin/layouts" # Views resources.view.encoding = "UTF-8" resources.view.basePath = APPLICATION_PATH "/views/" resources.view[] = resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules" resources.modules[] = resources.view[] = admin.resources.view[] = [staging : production] [testing : production] phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1 phpSettings.display_errors = 1 [development : production] phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1 phpSettings.display_errors = 1 ``` application/Bootstrap.php ``` <?php /** * Ensure all communications are managed by sessions. */ require_once ('Zend/Session.php'); Zend_Session::start(); class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap { protected function _initDoctype() { $this->bootstrap( 'view' ); $view = $this->getResource( 'view' ); $view->navigation = array(); $view->subnavigation = array(); $view->headTitle( 'Module One' ); $view->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/css/clear.css'); $view->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/css/main.css'); $view->headScript()->appendFile('/js/jquery.js'); $view->doctype( 'XHTML1_STRICT' ); //$view->navigation = $this->buildMenu(); } /*protected function _initAppAutoLoad() { $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array( 'namespace' => 'default', 'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH )); return $autoloader; }*/ protected function _initLayoutHelper() { $this->bootstrap('frontController'); $layout = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper( new ModuleLayoutLoader()); } public function _initControllers() { $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance(); $front->addModuleDirectory(APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules/admin/', 'admin'); } protected function _initAutoLoadModuleAdmin() { $autoloader = new Zend_Application_module_Autoloader(array( 'namespace' => 'Admin', 'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules/admin' )); return $autoloader; } protected function _initModuleutoload() { $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader ( array ('namespace' => '', 'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH ) ); return $autoloader; } } class ModuleLayoutLoader extends Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract // looks up layout by module in application.ini { public function preDispatch() { $bootstrap = $this->getActionController() ->getInvokeArg('bootstrap'); $config = $bootstrap->getOptions(); echo $module = $this->getRequest()->getModuleName(); /*echo "Configs : <pre>"; print_r($config[$module]);*/ if (isset($config[$module]['resources']['layout']['layout'])) { $layoutScript = $config[$module]['resources']['layout']['layout']; $this->getActionController() ->getHelper('layout') ->setLayout($layoutScript); } } } ``` application/modules/admin/Bootstrap.php ``` <?php class Admin_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap { /*protected function _initAppAutoload() { $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array( 'namespace' => 'admin', 'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules/admin/' )); return $autoloader; }*/ protected function _initDoctype() { $this->bootstrap( 'view' ); $view = $this->getResource( 'view' ); $view->navigation = array(); $view->subnavigation = array(); $view->headTitle( 'Module One' ); $view->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/css/clear.css'); $view->headLink()->appendStylesheet('/css/main.css'); $view->headScript()->appendFile('/js/jquery.js'); $view->doctype( 'XHTML1_STRICT' ); //$view->navigation = $this->buildMenu(); } } ``` Please go through it and let me know any knows how do configure module and layout in right way.. Thanks and regards, Prasanth P

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