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Reputation: 5458

How do I call other Controllers within a Zend Framework Process and retrieve their rendered view?

I have the following setup:

An endless running PHP process that looks at a job queue which contains module names, controller names, action names and a parameter array.

For every job I want to call the given controllers action and retrieve the rendered view for further processing.

I was thinking about bootstrapping an instance of Zend_Application for every job but not exactly sure on how to handle the rest. Maybe there is also a better way.

So my question is:

How do I call other Controllers within a Zend Framework Process and retrieve their rendered view?

Thanks to everyone in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5052

Answers (3)

Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones

Reputation: 23

Could you not use an Action View Helper? If you want the output in your controller then you can simply use $this->view->action('someAction', 'someController'); or the ActionStack helper.

In either case, be aware of the performance implications though. See Why the Zend Framework Actionstack is Evil for more details.

Upvotes: 0

spankmaster79
spankmaster79

Reputation: 22213

I would think taking the Front_Controller and dispatching a new request would be the best to do.

Something like this, from your controller (not working code):

    $frontController = $this->getFrontController();

    $newRequest = new Zend_Controller_Request_Http();
    $newRequest->setActionName('newAction');
    $newRequest->setControllerName('newController');

    $response = new Zend_Controller_Response_Http();

    $frontController->dispatch($newRequest, $response);

It might not be this simple, but something to think about...

Upvotes: 2

Julien CROUZET
Julien CROUZET

Reputation: 764

$this->_forward('otherAction', 'otherControllerOrNull');

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.dispatcher.html

You can read this thread : Calling member function of other controller in zend framework?

Upvotes: 0

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