How do you pass a variable from the controller to an action and from one action to another in Yii?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I need to pass a variable from the controller to an action and then keep passing the same variable to other action inside the controller. I don’t want to use the session though. What’s the best way to achieve this?

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public $variable;

$this->actionOther($variable);