How to call an action method from a controller?

albeva · #1 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 01:52 PM

I'de like to be able to call an action method from some controller without redirecting.

PHP Code:


			
class FooController extends Zend_Controller_Action

{

    function indexAction ()

    {

        echo "before call...";

        $this->_callControllerMethod ("bar", "index");

        echo "after call...";

    }

}

class BarController extends Zend_Controller_Action

{

    function indexAction ()

    {

         do my logic here and return the control flow to FooController::indexAction 

    }

}

Am I missing something? How is this done?

SpotSec · #2 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 11:45 PM

ZF does not provide a way to do that other than _forward() because action should be a complete unit of page and not handle the layout.

You could wrap whatever you extra call into a separate class.

albeva · #3 (**permalink**) 08-31-2007, 10:35 AM

I do not handle layout this way. Only get data from said controller. I have an editor component and I get content in such a way. Atm I have a plugin for that. but code is messy and I hoped there was a more elegant solution.

Elemental · #4 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007, 07:52 PM

You could create an instance of the BarController

Code:

class FooController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
{ 
    function indexAction () 
    { 
        echo "before call..."; 
        require_once('/path/to/barController.php');
                $barController = new BarController();
                $barReturn = $barController->index(); 
        echo "after call..."; 
    } 
} 
class BarController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
{ 
    function indexAction () 
    { 
         do my logic here and return the control flow to FooController::indexAction  
    } 
}

It's ugly, but it should work. Something along those lines anyway...

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