using action helpers in Zend Framework 1.8
- by Nasser
Hi am starting off with Zend Framework and have a question about action helpers. My first application is a simple authentication system (following a tutorial from a book). The registration and authentication seems to work fine but the redirect doesn't.
I have a customer controller that has this among others:
class CustomerController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
// some code here......
public function authenticateAction()
{
$request = $this->getRequest();
if (!$request->isPost()) {
return $this->_helper->redirector('login');
}
// Validate
$form = $this->_forms['login'];
if (!$form->isValid($request->getPost())) {
return $this->render('login');
}
if (false === $this->_authService->authenticate($form->getValues())) {
$form->setDescription('Login failed, please try again.');
return $this->render('login');
}
return $this->_helper->redirector('index');
}
the authenticate url is http://localhost/customer/authenticate and this seems to work fine but it does not redirect. After authentication I get a blank page which looks like its taking me to the index and just sits there. I tried using '/index' instead but that did not help either. Do I need to do anything special to make the redirector helper work? I have a logout action which behaves the same.