How to check if a user is registered in the Zend Framework?

Question

I am studying the Zend Framework, but I have some doubts about usage and concepts.

I want to check if the user is registered to allow access to all pages. If so, show the page; if not, display the login page.

My main doubts are: what I need to use for this (Zend_Auth, Zend_Acl, etc.) and where to check if the user is registered (in each controller or structure automatically checks this for each application).

Answer 1

The tool you want to use is Zend_Auth , which is pretty easy to use when you hang it.

Checking a user’s login can be as simple as: -

$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance(); if($auth->hasIdentity()) $loggedIn = true; 

See Rob Allen for a great tutorial on getting started with Zend Auth .

The method I use is to set up a user class that searches for authorization and access control and enters it into my application as an Assistant in action , so in any of my controllers I can simply do: -

 $this->user->checkSomething(); 

Part of the authorization should affect all parts of your site that you do not want to publish, and each affected controller must verify that the user is logged in. For access control, which is performed for each role / per resource, depending on how fine-grained you should be. See ACL and AUTH in the manual.

Answer 2

Want to check if a user is registered in ZendFramework? Try the following:

Put this anywhere in your controller to "debug", and place it at the beginning or beginning of the code:

 if (Zend_Auth::getInstance()->hasIdentity()) echo "oh yeah I'm logged in lol"; die;