Zend Controller & Zend View

How to add language routing to your Zend Framework project and be able to use URL helper in the view or layout.

If your project runs on Zend Framework, it is very easy to create canonical link by retrieving the controllers/actions and Parameters that you are using in the current URL.
This tutorial will give a quick method for creating Canonical URLs.

If you work with Zend frame work and calls a non existing Controller then it causes showing an ugly error message on the screen telling the Controller not found.

Plugin de configuration du contrôleur frontal et initialisation de l'application. Largement inspiré de l'article de Matthew sur la DEVZONE : http://devzone.zend.com/article/3372-Front-Controller-Plugins-in-Zend-Framework

Shows how to use the Zend Controller with the PEAR package HTML_Ajax.

When working with views in the Zend Framework, you normally have a view for each action in your controllers. Each of the views run a view script, which then include header and footer views in them. This may lead to some repetitive code and may cause a problem if you want to modify the way the header and footer are included in your views.

A better approach could be to use a "layout". A layour is a master view, perhaps similar to the master page in ASP.NET - it has the header, footer and all other code except the content. It effectively replaces the header and footer and is used to include the content (the action view script) inside itself instead of the action view script including the header and footer.

I've seen two articles describing how to integrate Smarty with Zend_View, Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework at Zend Developer Zone and Zend Framework: Using Smarty as template engine at Dmytro Shteflyuk's blog. Both of these are very outdated by now.
So here's take three on integrating Smarty with Zend_View, this time hopefully staying useful for a longer time since the Zend Framework has reached version 1 now.

Yet another demonstration of the power of the Zend Framework. This works with ZF Version 0.8 as well as the recent release of 0.9.(x?)
This time we’re going to create dynamic breadcrumbs that might look like this:
Home / Article / Editing: My Post Title
Utilizing view helpers, all we need to do is do a little prep work; in my case, I use a bootstrap controller that all my controllers extend.

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. So sit back, relax, here's another long (be patient ;-)) blog entry.

One could tweak Zend Framework's Router_Route to meet almost all your routing needs. But what if you want something beyond what that package can offer? You can make your routing dreams come true with making your own custom router, all you need to do is implement Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Interface (that's a mouth full).