5 Comments to “Adding an XHTML Strict Doctype and CSS File the Zend Way”

1. Craig
   May 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

   Firstly, great “ZendCasts” – thanks for taking the time to do these.

   I don’t see why you’d set the doctype in the bootstrap – seems no added benefit to just having it in the layout?

   Anyway, just a thought. Will probably become obvious when I start playing with Zend properly – perhaps when it comes to ajax & co and I end up using various doctypes in the project, it might be useful to set it outside of a view.

2. jon
   May 10, 2009 at 11:16 pm | Permalink

   Hey Craig,

   It seems a little silly to be using a whole architecture for these sorts of things initially, however I could imagine instances where you’d want to handle different doctypes for different platforms (i.e. if you have some sort of API with different layouts for different users… maybe I’m streatching this…).

   Anyways, I thought it was an interesting feature with a pattern that parallelled how CSS and JS can be inserted into Zend’s templating system.

3. Hemant
   August 31, 2009 at 12:37 am | Permalink

   Thanks a lot to http://www.zendcasts.com.

   Every episod is really very educative.

   Thanks again!!

4. Steve
   January 15, 2010 at 6:11 am | Permalink

   My understanding of setting the doctype in the bootstrap, or even the purpose of setting it in code at all (as opposed to hard coding in the layout) is so other code -that runs before the layout- can ‘know’ what type of markup you are using and can generate the right type.

   Though the discussion on whether or not you should do that in the first place is a different matter

5. Anees
   November 24, 2011 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

   by using
   C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
   and
   D:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

   i have set the directory D:\xampp\htdocs\zendcast
   into
   http://zendcast.local/

   and follows the same directory structure in the tutorial

   but when i tried to load the CSS with the line
   $this->headlink()->appendStylesheet(‘css/main.css’);
   it didn’t work
   when i have given
   $this->headlink()->appendStylesheet(‘/public/css/main.css’);
   it works

   please clarify me why it so