Zend Navigation issue

Question

I'm using Zend navigation to display menu items on the site.

in below bootstrap function, what does it mean by 'layout' in
$this->bootstrap('layout') ? Is it layout file name with path ?, since i have several modules, its bit confusing.

protected function _initNavigation()
{
    $this->bootstrap('layout');
    $layout = $this->getResource('layout');
    $view = $layout->getView();             
    $config = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/navigation.xml', 'nav');

     $container = new Zend_Navigation($config);

     $view->navigation($container);

}

Oussama Jilal Oussama Jilal · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-03T13:50:00

The layout is the site template that will be present in all site pages.

(To make it simple : for example you have a header and footer that will be present in all website pages, you put them in a layout and they will automaticaly included in all the pages)

For more informations on Zend Layout see Zend Layout Documentation

Edit :

You can specify on layout for all modules, or you can make one layout per module (it is your choice and it depends on what you want to)

Zend Navigation issue

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