How to call controller function in view in Zend Framework 2?

Question

I need to call a controller function in my view and passing parameter. I tried to following this How to call controller function in view in Zend Framework? but it's still not working.

I have record from my database like this :

---------------
| name  | age |
---------------
| Josh  | 22  |
| Bush  | 43  |
| Rush  | 23  |
---------------

here's my index.phtml

foreach ($result as $rstd){
    echo "<td>".$this->escapeHtml($rstd['name'])."</td>";
    echo "<td>".$this->escapeHtml($rstd['age'])."</td>";

    //here i want to access my controller function with sending parameter by name and also display something which has i set in that function.
    echo "<td>** result from that function **</td>";
}

here's my controller :

public function indexAction(){
    $result = $sd->getAllRecord($this->getMysqlAdapter());
    return new ViewModel(array('result'=>$result));
}

public function getRecordByName($name){
    if($name=='Bush'){
        $result = "You'r Old";  
    }else{
        $result = "You'r Young";    
    }

    return $result;
}

And i want display it like this :

-----------------------------
| name  | age | status      |
-----------------------------
| Josh  | 22  | You'r Young |
| Bush  | 43  | You'r Old   |
| Rush  | 32  | You'r Young |
-----------------------------

Can you help me ?

Answer 1

Call a controller action in view in considered bad practice . But you could achieve that by using view helpers. So what you need is:

• Create your custom View Helper,
• Register the view helper in invokables in your module.config.php ,
• Then you could call any controller action in your views

Here is a helper that you could use :

class Action extends \Zend\View\Helper\AbstractHelper implements   ServiceLocatorAwareInterface
{

    protected $serviceLocator;

    public function setServiceLocator(ServiceLocatorInterface $serviceLocator)
    {
        $this->serviceLocator = $serviceLocator;
        return $this;
    }

    public function getServiceLocator()
    {
        return $this->serviceLocator;
    }
    public function __invoke($controllerName, $actionName, $params = array())
    {
        $controllerLoader = $this->serviceLocator->getServiceLocator()->get('ControllerLoader');
        $controllerLoader->setInvokableClass($controllerName, $controllerName);
        $controller = $controllerLoader->get($controllerName);
        return $controller->$actionName($params);
    }
}

module.config.php :

'view_helpers' => array(
'invokables' => array(
    'action' => 'module_name\View\Helper\Action',
),  
),

In your view file :

$this->action('Your\Controller', 'getRecordByNameAction');

Hope this could help.

Answer 2

As per the comments you need to implement viewhelpers I have found a very easy solution here. This might be useful for you too.

ZF2 - How can i call a function of a custom class php from a view?

and here

https://samsonasik.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/zend-framework-2-create-your-custom-view-helper/