disable layout for particular pages in ZF2 - layout

Question

How to disable particular layout(example:menus.phtml) for particular pages in controller in ZF2?? In the below example menus.phtml should be disable for specific pages. Remaining pages must contain menus.phtml like header and footer.
<div>
header.phtml
</div>
<div>
menus.phtml
</div>
<div>
<?php echo $this->content; ?>
</div>
<div>
footer.phtml
</div>

Answer 1

There are various aproaches to this. Also modules.zendframework has quite a few modules here that may help you out.
If you are still keen on writing that yourself you could add variables to your layout within your controllers like so:
<?php
//YourController.php
public function someAction()
{
...
$this->layout()->footer = 'default';
...
}
//layout.phtml
<?php if ($this->footer === 'default') : ?>
//show the footer
<?php endif; ?>
Doing this is pretty inefficient though. Just imagine you'd need to do this to every action in all the controllers... I sure would not like to do that.
Now zf2 has a service and event layer that could help us out quite a bit here. This is a pretty nice read and introduction to it. You'd just write a service and trigger a event on your controllers/routes/whatever. Now you would also probably like to configure what is shown and what is hidden right? Thats pretty easy, too. Just write yourself a config file and merge it with the global.config like so:
<?php
//CustomModule/module.php
public function getConfig() {
$config = array();
$configFiles = array(
include __DIR__ . '/config/module.config.php',
include __DIR__ . '/config/module.customconfig.php',
);
foreach ($configFiles as $file) {
$config = \Zend\Stdlib\ArrayUtils::merge($config, $file);
}
return $config;
}
Source: Where to put custom settings in Zend Framework 2?

Answer 2

First, get the controller or action name:
$controllerName =$this->params('controller');
$actionName = $this->params('action');
then in your layout/view script add a simple logic.
<?php if ($actionName != 'action that you want to disable the layout/menu'): ?>
echo $this->render('menus.phtml');
<?php endif; ?>