Zend Framework + SmartyPosted by Dmytro Shteflyuk on March 8, 2006 under PHP Zend Framework’s View class has very bad capability for extending. It contains template variables but does not allow to access them, it has array with different pathes (templates, filters), but does not allow to add another type or access them. Therefor only way to use Smarty with Zend Framework is to abandon Zend_View and manipulate Smarty obj
