Why no Zend_Layout helper or codebehind? And best way to

Question

I was just wondering why no code-behind or helpers were made to work with layouts? I have stuff I want to display in my layouts without having to set it up in a placeholder for every single controller.

I was also wanted to know what is the best way to persist a display-once "success-message" across many pages. For example, a user fills out a form and when it is submitted correctly they are redirected to another page. I want the user to see a success message on that other page. Is there some sort of provision in Zend Framework that makes this easier?

Answer 1

Well for the messages you can use the Flash Messenger helper

As far as setting up the place holders you could use a base controller and set these up in the init method overriding on descendents when necessary.