In the last two entries, we examined creating a navigation structure with Zend_Navigation, and then we examined using that structure with the Zend Navigation View Helper. In both discussions, we focused on creating navigation items and menus, and inherently these items were available to all users regardless of access controls. But what happens when you have special areas of your site, say for subscribers or administrators? Controlling access is something that all web developers must do at some point. This is where integration between Zend_Navigation and Zend_Acl comes in.
Some important points about Zend_Acl
Zend_Acl doesn’t follow any particular paradigm with regards to implementation of access control. Instead, much like Zend_Navigation, it works as a standalone component, allowing you to determine when, where and how to implement access control. Personally, I implement access control at the module/controller/action level, but you can choose to do it any way you like.
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am |
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Categories: Technology, Zend Framework
Tags: Zend_Navigation, Zend_Acl, ACLs, access control, web development, navigation
In the last blog post, we discussed creating Zend_Navigation pages and containers. This is certainly wonderful and exciting, but the reality is that for the most part, Zend_Navigation is a pretty useless component of Zend Framework until you have a way to get the data out of the structure you’ve built. And since navigation is a component of most people’s views, we have a view helper to give us the tools we need.
When inside the view, there is a helper method called navigation() that can be accessed to do pretty much any of the things you need to do with the navigation objects. So let’s get started.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 @ 7:00 am |
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Categories: Zend Framework, Technology, Web Design
Tags: Zend_Navigation, Acl, Zend Navigation, ACLs, view helper, views, Zend Framework