Overriding Mage_Customer_AccountController and adding a custom function?

Question

I am overriding the forgotPasswordPostAction function in Mage_Customer_AccountController. This works well, I can call the function with a URL like that:

http://domain.com/whatever/index.php/customer/account/forgotpasswordpost/

Now I added a testAction function to the same controller, but I cant call it by URL, I always get forwarded to the login page (http://domain.com/whatever/index.php/customer/account/login/). Why? Can I define exceptions from that behaviour?

Thanks!

• Rajeev K Tomy: you added testAction in your module's controller.Please provide your controller file for reference ?
• Pradeep Sanku: share your code which you tried

Answer 1

It has to do with the preDispatch method in the AccountController.

public function preDispatch()
{
 [...] 
 $action = $this->getRequest()->getActionName();
 $openActions = array(
 'create',
 'login',
 'logoutsuccess',
 'forgotpassword',
 'forgotpasswordpost',
 'resetpassword',
 'resetpasswordpost',
 'confirm',
 'confirmation'
 );
 $pattern = '/^(' . implode('|', $openActions) . ')/i';
 if (!preg_match($pattern, $action)) {
 if (!$this->_getSession()->authenticate($this)) {
 $this->setFlag('', 'no-dispatch', true);
 }
 } else {
 $this->_getSession()->setNoReferer(true);
 }
}

If you add your test method to the $openActions array it will be allowed. Now it gets redirected to login as stated in the if-else