Integrate Smarty with Zend_Layout

If you can endure adding {include file="header.tpl"} and {include file="footer.tpl"} in all of your template files, then you don't have to worry about this issue. And you are lucky! (You are even more lucky if you don't use smarty at all!)

Unfortunately, I cannot accept this kind of coding, so I have to face the pain and find out how to integrate smarty with zend_layout.

I can only find one article from internet regarding this issue. The article is here: http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/03/12/implementing-zend-layout-and-smarty-using-zend-framework-mvc/

It gives us a detailed solution to implement smary with zend layout, and it DOES WORK! Thank God...