Zend Framework titbits

There are a couple of Zend Framework snippets and how-tos I find myself googling over and over again. I have decided to maintain this list and keep adding to it as I go along.

• Bypassing Zend_Db prepared statements:For complex queries, you may have to write the query out by hand and we recently had to do that. However Zend_Db insists on preparing ALL statements and a PDO bug forced the need to bypass this by accessing the connection object directly.
  To do that run:

  $result = $db->getConnection()->exec('SELECT * FROM users');

  More in the documentation

• Disable Zend_Layout

  public function ajaxAction() {
  // disable layouts for this action:
  $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
  ...
  }
  

• Disable Zend_ViewRenderer

  public function processingAction() {
  $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
  
  // disable the view for this action. e.g. actions that redirect after processing
  $this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
  ...
  }
  

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