In ZF there is a Forward Plugin in controllers. The manual says about it:
Occasionally, you may want to dispatch additional controllers from within the matched controller – for instance, you might use this approach to build up “widgetized” content. The Forward plugin helps enable this.
The example of it is like this:
$foo = $this->forward()->dispatch('foo', array('action' => 'process'));
The plugin returns something from the foo
controller (FooController::processAction
) to the initial matched controller that calls the plugin. But is it possible to finish the request (send final response to browser) from that foo
controller? Like this:
class IndexController extends AbstractActionController {
// The request comes here by routes
public function indexAction() {
if($someCondition) {
// I forward the request to the fooAction of this IndexController
// And I do not wait for any return from it, the response
// will be sent from fooAction, the run will not come back here
$this->forward()->dispatch('index', array('action' => 'foo'));
}
}
// I want to send the response from this action and finish with the request
public function fooAction() {
$response = $this->getResponse();
$response->setStatusCode(200);
$response->setContent($someContent);
// But it returns the response to the indexAction,
// instead of sending it to browser.
// How to finish the request here?
return $response;
}
}
Is it possible with the Forward
?
use regular php return
construct:
return $this->forward()->dispatch('index', array('action' => 'foo'));