Passing parameters using a Zend Framework redirect without appending to URL

Question

In our application, we have certain scenarios where we'd like to perform a redirect and pass a long string to the next controller/action. I'm familiar with both of these:

$this->_redirect('/controller/action?string=thisistheverylongstring);

But would like to avoid showing the user the string as part of the URL.

Throwing the string in $this->view doesn't help because after a redirect, a new request is created.

As far as I know, using $this->_helper->redirector() has the same problem.

Peter Bailey · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-19 19:45:39Z

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I'm not super familiar with ZF's controller system so I can't give you a bespoke recommendation.

Is using a session value out of the question? Another popular framework, symfony, uses what they call "flash" variables which are session values that survive for only 1 more request.

I'm sure you could do something similar with ZF.

answered Nov 19, 2009 at 19:45

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Chris Williams Over a year ago

Thanks for the info. There is a FlashMessenger class in ZendFramework. framework.zend.com/manual/en/…

Peter Bailey Over a year ago

Well awesome. Glad my answer pointed you in the right direction.

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