[fw-mvc] headless controllers

I can't seem to find a lot of documentation on how one would typically implement a controller without a view. Yes, turning off the view is easy, but not my question.

 

Suppose I have a background task that I want to run under certain conditions. Call it controller1/action1. And after it is done, suppose I want it to go to controller2/index. Is the typical implementation to chain these together through redirects?

Like:

class controller1 extends ActionController

{

    function action1Action()

    {

    //do something

    $this->_redirect('/controller2/index');

    }

}

 

Or is it prefered to chain them together in the dispatch chain using custom pre/post dispatch methods?

 

I know ZF has the flexibility to do it many ways, just trying to get an idea of the pros/cons of the different ways.

 

Seth