In this article, we will see how to specify different layouts for different controller actions in Zend Framework2.
This article belongs the series “Web application development with Zend Framework 2“.
This article is a continuation to the article titled “Zend Framework2 – Getting data in View layer from action controller using ViewModel“.
1. Setup the application
Please follow the steps explained in the article titled ”Zend Framework2 – Getting data in View layer from action controller using ViewModel” to ensure that you are getting a screen as shown in the Figure 1, below :
Figure 1 : Application Screenshot before applying action specific layout
From the above figure, it is clear the “Student” module has obtained a layout common to application. In the below given steps we are adding a new layout namely “student_layout” by which the layout of this module will be changed as shown in the figure 2.
2. Update the file Zf2StudentApp/module/Student/config/module.config.php
<?php
return array(
'controllers'=>array(
'invokables'=>array(
'Student\Controller\Student'=>'Student\Controller\StudentController'
)
),
'router'=>array(
'routes'=>array(
'student'=>array(
'type'=>'segment',
'options'=>array(
'route'=>'/student[/:action][/:id]',
'constraints'=>array(
'action'=>'[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
'id'=>'[0-9]+'
),
'defaults'=>array(
'controller'=>'Student\Controller\Student',
'action'=>'index'
)
)
)
)
),
'view_manager'=>array(
/* Defining layout file for index action of StudentController */
'template_map' => array(
'layout/student_layout' => __DIR__ . '/../view/layout/student_layout.phtml'
),
'template_path_stack'=>array(
'student'=>__DIR__ . '/../view'
)
)
);
3. Create the layout file Zf2StudentApp/module/Student/view/layout/student_layout.phtml
<html>
<body>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">
Student Module
</h1>
<?php
echo $this->content;
?>
</body>
</html>
4. Update the file Zf2StudentApp/module/Student/src/Student/Controller/StudentController.php
<?php
namespace Student\Controller;
use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;
class StudentController extends AbstractActionController{
public function indexAction(){
$this->layout("layout/student_layout");
return new ViewModel(array(
'students'=>array(
array(
"name"=>"A Mitra",
"department"=>"Physics",
"marks"=>77
),
array(
"name"=>"Mukherjee P S",
"department"=>"Physics",
"marks"=>89
),
array(
"name"=>"Rani Mathew",
"department"=>"Computer Science",
"marks"=>91
),
array(
"name"=>"Rakesh Krishna",
"department"=>"Computer Science",
"marks"=>72
),
array(
"name"=>"Faisal Ahmed",
"department"=>"ComputerScience",
"marks"=>93
)
)
));
}
}
5. Screenshot of the application
Figure 2 : Screenshot of the application in execution
6. Download application
The source for this application can be downloaded from here.
The application repository is available here
7. What is next?
A continuation to this article is available at “Setup model and table classes to fetch data from MySQL database using TableGateway in Zend Framework2”
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