Function to forward controller action to another controller

jamie commented

2020-08-04 23:55:34 +00:00

(Migrated from git.hazaar.io)

I have a situation where, due to a poorly implemented MVC application, there is a lot of code in a controller action that needs to be used by another controller action. Due to the size of the code and the method by which it was implemented, it would require the entire action to be re-written using correct MVC techniques in order to create common code in a Model that can be used from the new action that requires similar functionality.

To get around this issue in a more simple way, I have come up with a plan to make it simple to call another controller (and action) from the requested action. This will setup the controller, including initialising it, call the action and transfer all view and view data back to the original controller which can then make any required modifications before returning a response.

This would be executed possibly such as:

<?php
class TargetController {

  function action(){

    $this->forwardAction('index', 'action');

    $this->view->parameter = 'another value';

  }

}
?>

This would forward a request to /target/action internally to /index/action and then the target updates a view data parameter called parameter with a different value.

I have a situation where, due to a poorly implemented MVC application, there is a lot of code in a controller action that needs to be used by another controller action. Due to the size of the code and the method by which it was implemented, it would require the entire action to be re-written using correct MVC techniques in order to create common code in a Model that can be used from the new action that requires similar functionality. To get around this issue in a more simple way, I have come up with a plan to make it simple to call another controller (and action) from the requested action. This will setup the controller, including initialising it, call the action and transfer all view and view data back to the original controller which can then make any required modifications before returning a response. This would be executed possibly such as: ```php <?php class TargetController { function action(){ $this->forwardAction('index', 'action'); $this->view->parameter = 'another value'; } } ?> ``` This would forward a request to ```/target/action``` internally to ```/index/action``` and then the target updates a view data parameter called ```parameter``` with a different value.

jamie commented

2020-08-05 00:02:13 +00:00

(Migrated from git.hazaar.io)

mentioned in merge request !93