Recently I was forced to work with Zend Framework. I didn’t not anything about it and at the very beginning I had an essential question: how do you make certain values available in every controller? I had to call getLoginUrl from the Facebook Api for every page and I was convinced that it was unnecessary to do this in every controller. So I asked my question in a Zend Framework beginners forum. And I got the following, helpful and explaining answer:
“Layout”
If you don’t believe it, take a look at this page