phalcon - before executing view event?

Question

I want to execute:

$this->view->setVar("menus",$menus);

before the view gets executed.

$menus is an array that can be added by different controllers.

Finally before executing the view i want to put the menus var in the view.

Answer 1

Pick one of the Dispatcher's Events that best suits your needs, then add a method in your controller with same name of the picked event. You can implement this method on your controller base class. For example, adding the $menus in all views for the indexAction :

class MenuControllerBase extends \Phalcon\Mvc\Controller
{
  public function beforeExecuteRoute($dispatcher)
  {
    if($dispatcher->getActionName() == 'index') {
      if(isset($this->menus)) {
        $this->view->menus = $this->menus;
      }
    }
  }
}