Question

When I click on a submit button i want the page to redirect to the following page?

header('Location: /pdp/policy-info.phtml');

I wrote the above code in the controller code but I am not able to redirect to the above page. it stays on the same page.
the filename is called policy-info.phtml in the view.

Also once I redirect, would I be able access my form values through $_POST?
Or is there an alternative.

Answer 1

ok it sounds to me like you may be missing a few concepts:

• You will never redirect to a phtml file. (unless you have written some custom rewrite/route rules) Zend uses the MVC architecture, urls exist in this fashion:

  /module/controller/view/key1/value1/keyx/valuex/

  generally zend urls don’t terminate with file extensions. Also you will never directly call a view file from your browser.

• In your form tag, you specify where the form submits to with the action attribute. For your url i’m assuming the pdp controller and policy-info action

    action="/pdp/policy-info/"

• If you want to redirect after a form submit from with your controller you would use:

    $this->_redirect('/pdp/policy-info/'); 

    # maybe you want to execute some code and then execute 
    # additional code in another controller without re-bootstrapping
    $this->_forward('policy-info', 'pdp');

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.action.html#zend.controller.action.utilmethods

• If you redirect you will not have access to your POST unless you saved those values elsewhere (like in your session). If you forward, I believe the values will still be available in the second action.