Best practice creating dynamic sidebar with zend framework

Question

What is best practice to create dynamic sidebar or other non content layout places with zend framework. At this moment I created controller witch i called WidgetsController. In

Answer 1

You question doesn't provide many details. Generally, I'd say load the sidebar as view template, via the render/partial methods of the view. So from inside a view:

//$data is dynamic data you want to pass to the sidebar
echo $this -> partial('/path/to/sidebar.phtml',array('menuitems' => $data));

And then sidebar could process that dynamic data:

//sidebar.phtml


     menuitems as $item) : ?>
    
    

If you need extra functionality, you could create a dedicated view helper to handle it.