-- debussy007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Thursday, 20 September 2007, 01:33 PM -0700):
> Thank you all for your advices.
>
> I do not want to use FlashMessenger because I want to avoid creating
> sessions for guests who didn't authenticated, for permance reasons.
>
> I will opt for the easiest one, set the view variable in the AuthController.
> I think the best solution is to pass the parameter to the IndexController
> since it is not the role of the AuthController to render the view of the
> IndexController,
The AuthController isn't rendering the view in this case; it's simply
giving the view some information to use in its display logic.
> but the code gets dirty since those kind of operations
> demand some if statements etc.
>
>
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3 wrote:
> >
> > -- debussy007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > (on Thursday, 20 September 2007, 12:56 PM -0700):
> >> I wondered how to pass info between two controllers.
> >> Here is the case explained where I need it :
> >>
> >> I have an AuthController which is responsible for all login/logout
> >> actions.
> >>
> >> When I notice someone put a bad username and/or password,
> >> the AuthController forwards the flow to the IndexController which will
> >> render the home page
> >> and I want to display a message to explain it is a bad user and/or
> >> password
> >> on this home page.
> >>
> >> So the question is how do I specify that there was a bad connection
> >> attempt
> >> between the AuthController and the IndexController ?
> >>
> >> In other words how do I transfer the information between the
> >> AuthController
> >> and the IndexController
> >> that the connection failed ? What is the best way ?
> >
> > The fourth parameter to _forward() is an array of paramater values to
> > set in the request object:
> >
> > $this->_forward('index', 'index', null, array('error' => 'Bad login
> > credentials'));
> >
> > You'd then retrieve this in the other controller using _getParam():
> >
> > $error = $this->_getParam('error', false);
> > if ($error) {
> > // assign error to view?
> > }
> >
> > Alternatively, you could simply set a view variable, and check for that
> > in the home page view script:
> >
> > $this->view->error = 'Bad login credentials';
> >
> > Finally, you could use the FlashMessenger helper (as Darby has already
> > noted); this helper is best used for passing messages to subsequent
> > requests.
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> > PHP Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Zend - The PHP Company | http://www.zend.com/
> >
> >
>
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