zend framework get a variable from the controller to view

Question

I'm new to zend and OOP in general. I have a indexAction with a variable that I need to pass to the view. I've declared the variable as public and I thought I could then get the variable in the view using $this->variable but it doesn't work.

How do I pass a variable from indexAction to the view?

Answer 1

Within indexAction, you need to assign it to the view instance. simply do:

$this->view->something = "foo";

and in your view:

<?php echo $this->something ?>