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Somebody asked for some examples of how I use the headLink(), headScript(), and other placeholder helpers, so I thought I'd take a crack at that today.

First off, let's look at what these helpers do. Each are concrete instances of a placeholder. In Zend Framework, placeholders are used for a number of purposes:

• Doctype awareness
• Aggregation and formatting of aggregated content
• Capturing content
• Persistence of content between view scripts and layout scripts

Let's look at these in detail.