title: Zend framework - access controller or model from the view
body: <p>I need to give the front-end designer the ability to choose whether or not to display a single xml feed or an mash-up, from the view.phtml file</p>
  
  <p>This means I need to be able to call a method from the controller or model which then returns a variable to the view containing the requested feed(s).</p>
  
  <p>So how do I access methods of the controller or model from the view?</p>