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Zend Framework core developers continue to dismay

May 31, 2008

So while learning Zend Framework, I realized I would need two different doctype statements in my two different view layouts, since I would be using a frameset in my admin, but then regular XHTML everywhere else.

I found out pretty quickly I was unable to setup the proper logic directly in the view layout. I also noticed the buggy Zend Framework doctype() helper was allowing non-compliant HTML input fields to be created. So when I asked the Zend Framework developers, here's how Matthew Weier O'Phinney suggested I do it:

I'd do this in a preDispatch() plugin:

class My_Plugin_Doctype extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
   public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
   {
     $viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('viewRenderer');
     $viewRenderer->initView();
     $view = $viewRenderer->view;

     if (('admin' == $request->getControllerName())
         && ('index' == $request->getActionName()))
     {
       // set frameset doctype
       $view->doctype('XHTML1_FRAMESET');
     } else {
       // set regular doctype
       $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
     }
   }
}

Then, register this in your bootstrap:

$front->registerPlugin(new My_Plugin_Doctype);

Are you kidding me? An entire 19-line plugin, just for a simple if/else statement? What are these people smoking?

And just so you know, I am NOT making this up:

http://www.nabble.com/valid-html-issue-to17526822.html

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