The Redirector helper allows you to use a redirector object to fufill your application's needs for redirecting to a new URL. It provides numerous benefits over the _redirect() method, such as being able to preconfigure sitewide behavior into the redirector object or using the built in goto($action, $controller, $module, $params) interface similar to that of Zend_Controller_Action::_forward().

The Redirector has a number of methods that can be used to affect the behaviour at redirect:

• setCode() can be used to set the HTTP response code to use during the redirect.

• setExit() can be used to force an exit() following a redirect. By default this is true.

• setGoto() can be used to set a default URL to use if none is passed to goto(). Uses the API of Zend_Controller_Action::_forward(): setgoto($action, $controller = null, $module = null, array $params = array());