Question

I’m new to Zend framework and can’t find a clear answer on this. I essentially want some code to execute after a controller’s logic for a page, but before the layout and view are rendered.

For example, I want to auto-refresh the flash messages and provide them to the layout/view automatically, so that I don’t need to do so in every controller. This obviously needs to happen after the controller code has executed since it might add messages.

$this->view->messages = $this->_helper->flashMessenger->getMessages();

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is with a controller plugin, see http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.controller.plugins.html. The postDispatch() method runs after your controller code but before the page is rendered.