There may be times when part or all of a text/plaintext version of an action’s template needs to be rendered for use from within another action who’s display format is set as text/html. For example, if there is a text/plaintext version of an order receipt that appears within an application, and that same version of the order receipt needs to be mailed to a user from within a separate action, we need to tell the order receipt to render in text/plaintext otherwise it will attempt to render in the format of the current action; in this case text/html. This is assuming the email is being sent as text/plaintext itself and the rendering action’s format is text/html.
Symfony offers a sfWebRequest::getPresentationFor() method which provides the functionality to render an action’s view from within another action, even if the calling action resides in a separate module. The trick is specifying the format for the other action while maintaining the requested format for the current action. The getPresentationFor() method signature is limiting in it’s support for specifying a format, so the only option appears to be as follows.
// In the current action
$format = sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->getRequestFormat();
sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->setRequestFormat('txt');
$otherActionContent = sfContext::getInstance()->getController()->getPresentationFor('moduleName', 'otherActionName');
sfContext::getInstance()->getRequest()->setRequestFormat($format);
unset($format);
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