Zend Framework - multiple modules, one layout

Question

I have a Zend application with the following structure:

application
    configs
        application.ini
    modules
        api
            controllers
            Bootstrap.php
        default
            controllers
                IndexController.php
            models
            views
                scripts
                    index
                        index.phtml
                layouts
                    layout.phtml
            Bootstrap.php

My application/configs/application.ini looks like this:

phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php"
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap"
appnamespace = "Application"
resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 0
resources.db.adapter = "PDO_SQLITE"
resources.db.params.dbname = APPLICATION_PATH "/../data/db/test.sqlite3"

resources.modules = ""

resources.frontController.params.prefixDefaultModule = "1"
resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"
resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules/default/views/layout/"

My problem is that I cannot use the layout no matter what I do. If I go to http://test.app/index/index , I can see the output of the view script, but not the layout.

Answer 1

I see you specify the layout path but never the actual layout file to use. Assuming the layout is named layout.phtml add this to the app's ini.

resources.layout.layout = "layout"

You can override on a per action/controller level if you ever need to use more than one layout. In the controller you can reach the layout via $this->_helper->layout() Then you have methods such as: setLayoutPath() , setLayout() , disableLayout()

Reference: http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/learning.layout.usage.html

Answer 2

You need to initialize your layout file in the Bootstrap.php or application.ini to be able to use it, you haven't declared which file to use.

In Bootstrap.php

function _initViewHelpers()
{
    $this->bootstrap('layout');
    $layout = $this->getResource('layout');
    $view = $layout->getView();
}

And you should be good to go, if you want to have multiple layout and have different condition to use layout you should look at this answer here this is pretty cool.