Question

Is there any way to get access to a helper class from within a registered plugin. From within the controller, one can use:

$this->_helper->getHelper($helperName);

Specifically, we use the FlashMessenger helper to pass error and info messages around to different pages before we do a redirect. In one of our plugins, we log a user out and set the index and controller to a different page. We could manually set a value in the request but this seems to go against what the FlashMessenger is supposed to be used for and we’d have to do that just for this special case.

Answer 1

You should use the action helper broker to retrieve a helper anywhere outside a controller. See the similar question:

zend-framework, call an action helper from within another action helper