Zend Framework issue with accessing a method from another controller

Question

I have been trying to use the _forward method to access a method in my IndexController from another controller, but it won't seem to work. I have tried:

$this->_forward('permissions', 'Index')
$this->_forward('permissions', 'index')
$this->_forward('permissions', 'IndexController')
$this->_forward('permissions', 'indexcontroller')

None of which have worked. Here is my code.

Controller

class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

    /**
     * facebookConfig
     * 
     * @var mixed
     * @access protected
     */
    protected $facebookConfig;

    /**
     * signed_request
     * 
     * @var mixed
     * @access protected
     */
    protected $signed_request;

    /**
     * facebookConfig
     * 
     * @var mixed
     * @access protected
     */
    protected $permissions;

    /**
     * init function.
     * 
     * @access public
     * @return void
     */
    public function init()
    {
        // get the model
        $this->app = new Application_Model_Admin();

        // get config data
        $this->facebookConfig =  $this->app->configData();

        // get the apps permissions
        $this->permissions = $this->permissions();

        // get the data for the head
        $data = $this->app->configData();
        if(empty($data->ogimage))
            $data->ogimage = '';

        // set the page title
        $this->view->headTitle($data->title, 'PREPEND');

        // set the meta data
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('fb:app_id',       $data->appid);
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('og:type',         $data->ogtype);
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('og:title',        $data->ogtitle);
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('og:description',  $data->ogdesc);
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('og:url',          $data->applink);
        $this->view->headMeta()->setName('og:image',        $data->ogimage);
    }

    /**
     * permissions function.
     * 
     * @access public
     * @return void
     */
    public function permissions(){
        // return the permissions
        return 'publish_stream, read_stream, friends_likes';
    }

}

Second Controller

<?php

class ThanksController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

    /**
     * facebookConfig
     * 
     * @var mixed
     * @access protected
     */
    protected $permissions;

    /**
     * init function.
     * 
     * @access public
     * @return void
     */
    public function init()
    {
        // get the model

        // get the permissions
        $this->permissions = $this->_forward('permissions', 'index');
        print_r('<pre>');var_dump($this->_forward('permissions', 'index'));print_r('</pre>');die;

    }
 }

If you want multiple controllers to share a method, you should look into Zend action helpers instead. — Tim Gautier
– Tim Gautier, Commented Aug 22, 2012 at 17:30

Ivan Hušnjak · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-22 17:25:26Z

2

_forward is used only to call controller actions, not regular methods

_forward('index') actually refers to method indexAction()

answered Aug 22, 2012 at 17:25

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Joel Lord · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-22 19:34:32Z

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Change this:

public function permissions(){
    // return the permissions
    return 'publish_stream, read_stream, friends_likes';
}

to this:

public function permissionsAction(){
    // return the permissions
    return 'publish_stream, read_stream, friends_likes';
}

answered Aug 22, 2012 at 19:34

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gazzwi86 · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-23 14:10:36Z

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I wasn't thinking particularly clearly, instead I just put the code in a model and accessed the data from their.

answered Aug 23, 2012 at 14:10

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