How to capture a Zend view output instead of actually outputting it
问题 Problem: sometimes in our zend controller we don't want the script to be output directly, but rather want the content of that script. One example: when we need the result html output of a view script be included in another structure like JSON or XML for processing in the client side. I found the result here at stack overflow, but not so quick since it was in a different context. I have been struggling with this for 2 days now. As it turned out it was very simple: // in our controllers' action