Comments on: Zend_Acl Quickstart

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:31:57 +0000

This is a very excellent screencast!! Thanks so much for providing a useful example with clear explanations as to why you are doing each step and taking nothing for granted. I look forward to you future screencasts!

Thanks!
-Mike

By: Thimo

Thimo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:41:06 +0000

Hi,

I really rarely write a comment but i think you have earned it!
Thanks for this really great tutorial!
It’s really easy now^^ And your debate is really good, also for “not-english-speeking-persons”

Thanks allot!

By: Mike Rötgers

Mike Rötgers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:34:07 +0000

Yes, new screencasts will follow as soon as my company’s newest project is up and running. Topics will probably be Zend_Translate with gettext and Continuous Integration with phpUnderControl.

By: Alican

Alican — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:40:32 +0000

Are you planning another screencasts for other components, I think Zend_Lucene and Zend_Translate would be great.
Also this is great tutorial, thank you for your efforts.

By: Pino

Pino — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:28:38 +0000

Thank you very much for this quick response.

By: Mike Rötgers

Mike Rötgers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:45:46 +0000

I named my resources like my controllers. You can change that to a naming scheme like “modulename_controllername”.
The plugin would then change to this:

class My_Controller_Plugin_Acl extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract

{

    public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)

    {

        if (Zend_Auth::getInstance()->hasIdentity())

        {

            $role = Zend_Auth::getInstance()->getStorage()->read()->role;

        }

        else

        {

            $role = 'guest';

        }

        $acl = new My_Acl();

        if (!$acl->isAllowed(

            $role,

            $request->getModuleName() . '_' . $request->getControllerName(),

            $request->getActionName()

        ))

        {

            throw new Zend_Exception('Access Denied!');

        }

    }

}

By: Pino

Pino — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:48:11 +0000

Thank you very much. This is a really good tutorial…
But how would the My_Controller_Plugin_Acl’s preDispatch()-method change if I have a site that does also have modules.
So for exampla I have the default-module with two actions:
1. IndexAction - everybody can access this
2. MemberAction - just Members can access this

And a CMS-module with some actions, but this is just for admins.

I guess that the parameters whithin call to $asl->isAllowed() would change. But to what? Do I have to check for modules and contollers?

By: Genio Salama

Genio Salama — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:23:46 +0000

Thank you so so so so much , I`m practitioner developer and I should understand how ZF works better , u gave me such a nice clue

By: Mike Rötgers

Mike Rötgers — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:22:42 +0000

Thank you for your feedback. More will follow soon.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this very understandable screencast. It should be added to the zend framework official documentation!
I’m on the watchout for more like these!