How to implement a sidebar in Zend Framework

Question

How do I implement a sidebar in Zend Framework? I know that I can use a placeholder or something similar in Zend_layout, but how do I automatically generate the code for the sid

Answer 1

You could just have a action and view in one of your controllers which renders the sidebar.

from the layout for the blog module you just call:

action('action','controller','module',array('optionalparams'=>1); ?>

on the position where you want to have it. So one call to one action.