ZF2 Redirect from phtml file

Question

is there a way to make a redirection from inside a phtml file in ZF2 Framework?

The reason is that I am using the jQuery $.POST mechanism (ajax) to refresh a part of the page, but I cannot make a redirection from the controller used by the ajax because it will load the new page into the div (which is inside another page).

I have tried using ZF2's :

$this->_redirect($this->url('restaurants'));

But I get a ServiceNotFoundException. I also tried php's:

<?php header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ; ?>

But this just did not work at all.

Hope this is clear enough!.. Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

You can't use header when you printed anything before it. There must not be any output before header . So this means the exact same for $this->_redirect() .

What you could do is the following: Add this to your head section

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com/">

or use javascript to redirect the user. If you don't want to extend your layout file you should use javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
    window.location = "http://www.example.com/"
</script>

EDIT

After rereading your question i think the only possible way for you to redirect the user after you've received the page content is the javascript solution.