I wonder if you can explain the following. I have used the actionStack as in your book to call a menuAction for generating website navigation.

As the navigation depends on the current page (e.g. showing child pages), I wanted to pass the original request to the menuAction. By setting the controller/action names as params in the cloned request, this is easily achievable. I thought it might be neater to pass the original request though, maintaining all the parameters and original information.

The code looks something like this:

public function dispatchLoopStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();

if (!$front->hasPlugin('Zend_Controller_Plugin_ActionStack')) {

$actionStack = new Zend_Controller_Plugin_ActionStack();
$front->registerPlugin($actionStack, 97);

} else {
$actionStack = $front->getPlugin('Zend_Controller_Plugin_ActionStack');
}

$menuAction = clone($request);

//pass original request as param
$menuAction->setActionName('index')
->setControllerName('navigation')
->setParam('original', $request);

$actionStack->pushStack($menuAction);

}

//…. navigationController

public function indexAction(){

//get controller name - returns 'navigation' instead of original
$this->getRequest()->getParam('original')->getControllerName();

//can access original request info like this however
$this->getRequest()->getParam('controller');

}

Do you know why I can't pass the original request as a parameter, and call its methods?

Probably best to set a param and test for its existence in you MenuController.

If we setup a menucontroller and a menuaction, how do we block users from going to domain.com/menu/menu?

In my case, I end up seeing two menus stacked on top of each other. One from layout()->menu, and then again from layout->content (because the content becomes the menu…again!).

I tried _redirect and _forward, but it doesn't work…seems like I create an infinite loop.

My only other idea is to use Zend_Acl to block certain actions…haven't tried it yet though.

Thanks,

Kevin

I wasn't pressurising you… honest!

However, as you find errors, let us know on the MEAP forums :)

A new MEAP version will be out soon too which will be manuscript complete!

Regards,

Rob…

That's the one :)

You can pre-order now (click the book image on http://www.zendframeworkinaction.com) and you'll be sent the pre-release PDF.

Regards,

Rob…