In Zend MVC, how do you pass a variable set int the controller, to a layout?

Question

I have to pass the page title names and meta information to the layout but not to sure how to do this =/

Answer 1

You may set you page titles and other info in your controller (if you're planning to change these depending on the action called):

$this->view->headTitle('123');
$this->view->headMeta('text/html; charset=UTF-8', 'Content-Type', 'http-equiv');

And then render them in your layout:

echo $this->headTitle() . $this->headMeta();

Answer 2

check out the placeholder helpers http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.view.helpers.html#zend.view.helpers.initial.placeholder and http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.layout.quickstart.html