How do I eliminate the views/scripts folder?

Question

Let's say I'm tired of having to put my page template folders under views/scripts and want to just put them under views, leaving out the "scripts" part of the path. How can I alter the config of ZendFramework to permit me to do that?

Answer 1

See ZF Manual for Zend_View and place this in your bootstrap:

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initView()
    {
        $view = new Zend_View();
        $view->setScriptPath('/some/new/path');   // overwrite any paths
        $view->addScriptPath('/some/other/path'); // adds additional paths
        $view->setEncoding('UTF-8');
        $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
        $view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv(
            'Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8'
        );
        $viewRenderer =
        Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper(
            'ViewRenderer'
        );
        $viewRenderer->setView($view);
        return $view;
    }
}

or configure your Ini for use with Zend_Application_Resource_View

resources.view.encoding = "UTF-8"
resources.view.basePath = APPLICATION_PATH "/views/scripts"
...

Note that the selected basePath assumes a directory structure of:

base/path/
    helpers/
    filters/
    scripts/

See also this tutorial by Padraic Brady.

Answer 2

Hi there,

Try the following:

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{

// ...

    protected function _initView()
    {
        // Initialise the view
        $view = new Zend_View();
        $view->addScriptPath(APPLICATION_PATH.'/views');

        // set the configured view as the view to be used by the view renderer.
        $renderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
        $renderer->setView($view);

        return $view;
    }

// ...

}

The previous answer is missing the part where you set the view you have configured to have the additional script path to the View Renderer.

HTH.