In ZF2 how to make view functions to run in controller

php, zend-controller, zend-framework2, zend-view

Solution

You need to get the `ViewHelperManager` and extract the `EscapeHtml` helper. This is a one example how to do it from the controller:

$viewHelperManager = $this->getServiceLocator()->get('ViewHelperManager');
$escapeHtml = $viewHelperManager->get('escapeHtml'); // $escapeHtml can be called as function because of its __invoke method       
$escapedVal = $escapeHtml('string');

Note that it is recommended to escape and display the output in the view scripts and not in the controller.

Problem

I wanted the functionalities of view files to run in controller file also. For example, I wanted `$this->escapeHtml()` which runs in view file alone to run in controller through some means like `$this->...->escapeHtml()` Is this possible? Kindly help.

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