Creating a custom JSON response object with Zend Action Helper ContextSwitch

Question

I normally append an encoded json object to the response body, however I now have a situation that warrants using the ContextSwitch action helper.

I have a Zend_Form

Answer 1

Personally, I don't use "View" to generate JSON content. In my init(), I have something like this:

$ajaxContext = $this->_helper->getHelper('AjaxContext');
$ajaxContext->setAutoJsonSerialization(false)
    ->addActionContext('index', array('html', 'json'))
    ->initContext();

And In my indexAction():

if ( true === $this->isAjaxJson() ) {
    $this->_helper->json(
        array(
            'response' => $myResponse,
            'message' => $myMesage
        )
    );
    return;
}

Hope this help.

Answer 2

this may help : $this->_helper->json->sendJson($data); while,

$data=array('data1'=>'val1','data2'=>'val2');