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Asked: 2026-05-22T15:01:03+00:00

I have a sidebar which appears on every page. The first elements of the

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I have a sidebar which appears on every page. The first elements of the sidebar are either a) a login form, or b) details of the current user, (depending on whether the user is logged in or not).

I have read up on a few ways to accomplish this and am planning to initialise a sidebar placeholder in the bootstrap.

When it comes to appending the user details, or the login form, to the sidebar, should I be doing this from predispatch in an Action Helper? Or from predispatch in a controller plugin? Why?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I recommend reading Using Action Helpers To Implement Re-Usable Widgets by Matthew Weier O’Phinney (ZF Lead).

    In his example he uses public function preDispatch() in an Action Helper to create a reusable Login/User-Widget.

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