Padraic Brady has posted some of his comments on the newly included Zend_Layout and Zend_View_Enhanced components for the Zend_Framework:

These two (now much more polished!) components were both designed to solve the concerns a lot of developers were having in achieving truly complex, structured and modular Views using Zend_View.

Indeed there are months of blog postings, debates, experimental and not-so-experimental code, proposals, IRC sessions and countless emails pouring over how to accomplish the goals of these components. The end result is something I feel will serve Zend Framework users faithfully for months and years to come.

He thanks the developers (Matthew and Ralph) and notes that the inclusion of these two components is one of the largest advancements of the display layer for the Framework in a while.

Padraic Brady has posted some of his comments on the newly included Zend_Layout and Zend_View_Enhanced components for the Zend_Framework:

These two (now much more polished!) components were both designed to solve the concerns a lot of developers were having in achieving truly complex, structured and modular Views using Zend_View.

Indeed there are months of blog postings, debates, experimental and not-so-experimental code, proposals, IRC sessions and countless emails pouring over how to accomplish the goals of these components. The end result is something I feel will serve Zend Framework users faithfully for months and years to come.

He thanks the developers (Matthew and Ralph) and notes that the inclusion of these two components is one of the largest advancements of the display layer for the Framework in a while.

Matthew Weir O'Phinney notes today that the Zend_View_Enhanced and Zend_Layout components for the Zend Framework have officially joined the core.

With these two components, you can now create some truly complex views for your application with relative ease. [...] By having these as a standard part of the library, there are now standard ways to perform these tasks -- meaning consistency between applications.

He gives some brief examples of the use of the two newly included components: echoing out a DOCTYPE, adding a script to be loaded in the header and a more complex layout with a header, meta data, content and a footer section.

Matthew Weir O'Phinney notes today that the Zend_View_Enhanced and Zend_Layout components for the Zend Framework have officially joined the core.

With these two components, you can now create some truly complex views for your application with relative ease. [...] By having these as a standard part of the library, there are now standard ways to perform these tasks -- meaning consistency between applications.

He gives some brief examples of the use of the two newly included components: echoing out a DOCTYPE, adding a script to be loaded in the header and a more complex layout with a header, meta data, content and a footer section.

Pádraic Brady continues his series on working with Complex Views in the Zend Framework with this new article - part seven focusing on the Zend_View Enhanced method.

It's been a long, and hopefully interesting, road to Part 7. In this concluding entry to the long running, and oft delayed, "Complex Views with the Zend Framework" series I introduce the Zend_View Enhanced Proposal for the Zend Framework, elaborate on its operation, and provide some opinions on the ongoing debate over its implementation.

In this final entry of the series, he recaps previous concepts (like Partials/Layouts/Controllers/Placeholders) and how far reaching the Zend_View Enhanced component is. He also includes some of the helpers and interfaces he's proposed for the module including:

• Zend_View_Helper_Partial
• Zend_View_Helper_Controller
• Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript
• Zend_View_Helper_Doctype
• Zend_View_Helper_HeadStyle

He takes each of the concepts mentioned above and applies these different helpers/interfaces inside them, illustrating with some sample code as needed.

Pádraic Brady continues his series on working with Complex Views in the Zend Framework with this new article - part seven focusing on the Zend_View Enhanced method.

It's been a long, and hopefully interesting, road to Part 7. In this concluding entry to the long running, and oft delayed, "Complex Views with the Zend Framework" series I introduce the Zend_View Enhanced Proposal for the Zend Framework, elaborate on its operation, and provide some opinions on the ongoing debate over its implementation.

In this final entry of the series, he recaps previous concepts (like Partials/Layouts/Controllers/Placeholders) and how far reaching the Zend_View Enhanced component is. He also includes some of the helpers and interfaces he's proposed for the module including:

• Zend_View_Helper_Partial
• Zend_View_Helper_Controller
• Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript
• Zend_View_Helper_Doctype
• Zend_View_Helper_HeadStyle

He takes each of the concepts mentioned above and applies these different helpers/interfaces inside them, illustrating with some sample code as needed.