Zend Framework 2 - Layout and variable

Question

i have a layout used by all my views and i need to assign a variable from a controller to this layout , if i use this method on a controller it doesn\'t work :

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Answer 1

Rob Allen has posted a great article about how to access view variables in another view model (e.g.: layout)

Basically the following code, placed inside your layout.phtml, will match your needs:

viewModel()->getCurrent()->getChildren();
$child = $children[0];
?>

escape($child->myvar);?>