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Redirect dispatcher to another action

Hello everyone.

I'm making my first steps in Phalcon and found a problem.

I'm trying to make controller redirect dispatcher to another action in the same controller:

public function beforeExecuteRoute($dispatcher)
    {
        $action = $dispatcher->getActionName();
        $dispatcher->setActionName($action.'SomeSuffix');
    }

However it does'nt seem to work. So my questions are:

  1. How can I make dispatcher to fire another action instead of action, it would execute? I want to do this in controller, not in routes definition.
  2. What is the setActionName() method for? It does'nt seem to make any difference?

Adam



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Only wanna a redirect? Then $this->response->redirect("controller/action") // "/action" is optional



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My mistake. I don't want to execute full redirect with http. I Just want to execute another action instead of the action that would be executed.

Tried $dispatcher->forward() but it loops the dispatcher.



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If, as you say, tried forward() ( https://docs.phalcon.io/es/latest/reference/dispatching.html#forwarding-to-other-actions ) and isn't what you want, then I've no idea.

However, I think forwarding is the nearest thing you can do.



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I tried to do something like this in beforeExecuteRoute():

        $newMethod = 'anotherMethod';
        $this->$newMethod();
        return false;

But then i get no calls to afterExecuteRoute() etc.

So is there any way to change dispathers action inside dispatch loop?



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Accepted
answer

Maybe creating you own dispatcher... but I'm not sure, we need someone expert in this.



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edited Sep '14

Hi,

saying I'm in editAction on CategoryController, then I can use:

return $this->dispatcher->forward(array(
    "controller" => "category",
    "action" => "index"
));


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I thought that except me there are only exprets here. ;)

Yes, creating my own dispatcher would solve the problem but it seems illogical. While i'm in a dispatch loop that will execute controler/action I can add to that loop execution of another controllerA/actionB but I can't do anything with it.

In other words - forward executes the default action and then executes forwarded one. I'd like to execute the forwarded action only.

I imagine that dispatcher has some internal list that it executes. A list of controller-action pairs. I can manipulate that list by adding another pairs but I cant do other manipulations like deleting, skipping items on that list. For example

$dispatcher->skip() - would skip execution of next action. $dispatcher->skipAll() - would skip everything.



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in reply to le51

That works but still executes the editAction. Is'nt there a way to skip it in beforeExecuteRoute()?

Hi,

saying I'm in editAction on CategoryController, then I can use:

               return $this->dispatcher->forward(array(
                   "controller" => "category",
                   "action" => "index"
               ));


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edited Sep '14

OK, so if you do not want that (following my example) the editAction is executed, why don't you call directly CategoryController/indexAction ?

That works but still executes the editAction. Is'nt there a way to skip it in beforeExecuteRoute()?

I do not think so. As the documentationsays, it is:

Triggered before executing the controller/action method.

<=> so CategoryController/editAction is executed ...

Edit: maybe you can try "beforeDispatchLoop" or "beforeDispatch" events, but I'm quiet sure that when the dispatcher is called, the requested modulee/controller/action/params is executed



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I guess i'll go with custom dispatcher. Still it seems illogical not to be able to manipulate dispatch loop from inside the controler when you could.