Return rendered ViewModel with child views from AJAX request in Zend

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Hi there,

So I’m getting a little confused with how to return some html in an AJAX request from Zend. Actually It’s pretty straightforward to do it, but I refactored my view to include child views.

Here’s my original script:


$view = new ViewModel(array($bat => 'bat', $baz => 'baz');
$view->setTemplate('foo');

$child = new ViewModel();
$child->setTemplate('bar');

$view->addChild($child);

$htmlOutput = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('viewrenderer')->render($view);

return $response->setContent(Json::encode(array('html' => $htmlOutput)));

Which worked fine, except that the child view wasn’t rendered.

So I tried to use the PhpRenderer:


$renderer = new PhpRenderer();
$htmlOutput = $renderer->render($layout);

return $response->setContent(Json::encode(array('html' => $htmlOutput)));

And I got the following error:
Unable to render template “foo”; resolver could not resolve to a file

So I added a resolver:


$renderer = new PhpRenderer();

$resolver = new Resolver\\TemplatePathStack();
$resolver->setPaths(
    array('foo' => 'path/to/foo.phtml');
);

$renderer->setResolver($resolver);
$htmlOutput = $renderer->render($layout);

return $response->setContent(Json::encode(array('html' => $htmlOutput)));

But I get the same error.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Many thanks,
Mike