How to access custom named views in Zend controllers

Question

How to get access to the custom named views instead of giving the same method name in Zend framework 2.0.

For Eg:

Under index action "return new ViewModel();" will call index.phtml but i want to call an another view here.

Answer 1

Just call model view with view you want:

     $model = new ViewModel(); 
     $model->setTemplate('edit'); 
     return $model;

More info: http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.view.renderer.php-renderer.html

Answer 2

Within your controller, you can use the ViewModel's setTemplate method to change which script will be rendered:

public function someAction()
{
    // do stuff here

    $viewModel = new ViewModel($anArrayOfVariablesForTheView);
    $viewModel->setTemplate('application/view/arbitrary');
    return $viewModel;
}

Note that you don't need to specify the .phtml.