Question

I need to give the front-end designer the ability to choose whether or not to display a single xml feed or an mash-up, from the view.phtml file

This means I need to be able to call a method from the controller or model which then returns a variable to the view containing the requested feed(s).

So how do I access methods of the controller or model from the view?

Answer 1

you don’t call controller methods in view , but you can create an instance of model (for read only purposes) inside view and then call its public methods .eg

Foo.phtml

<?php $feedsTb = new Default_Model_Feeds() ?>
<?php $allFeeds = $feedsTb->fetchAll(); ?>