Comments on: Helpers and plugins

By: Coretan Budak Leutik » Blog Archive » Lorem Ipsum view Helper

Coretan Budak Leutik » Blog Archive » Lorem Ipsum view Helper — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:08:37 +0000

[...] I wrote about view helpers the other day it dawned on me that I’ve never posted the view helper I created [...]

By: Coretan Budak Leutik » Blog Archive » Fun with view Renderer

Coretan Budak Leutik » Blog Archive » Fun with view Renderer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:02:25 +0000

[...] ViewRenderer is an action helper. This means that it is stored in the helper broker. You can retrieve it anywhere in your code with: [...]

By: LoopTrop

LoopTrop — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:39:13 +0000

Naneau >> so, in front_controller_plugin, in preDispatch() method, I can check user request (Zend_Acl) and if request is not allowed (user is not authorized to run action controller), all I need to setup error, is write module/ctrl/action names to request object?

ZF will take care of runing this? Is this also true, now in ZF 1.6?

THX.

By: berry__

berry__ — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:06:16 +0000

naneau++

By: sinusss

sinusss — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:49:41 +0000

Thanks naneau and SpotSec

By: Naneau

Naneau — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:09:01 +0000

Well, yes and no. It does provide you with the flexibility to define whether a controller needs auth on it’s own level. But, it has the drawback that you can’t define it on a global level. You mix auth code with the controllers themselves. This may or may not be a disadvantage.

I feel that it’s nice to control access control from a “global” level, using some kind of access control list (think Zend_Acl). If you decide later on that you don’t want to require auth for a certain controller, you don’t have to change the controller itself.

By: Axel

Axel — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:48:46 +0000

I choosed to use an action helper for the auth stuff instead of a plugin, because I’m able to ask the controller whether it needs authentification or not. So I simply can set in the init()-hook of the controller $this->setAuthController(true) (default is false) and check this flag fromout the auth-helper. With an auth-plugin this won’t be possible.

Do you feel that this method has any drawbacks?

By: Naneau

Naneau — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:10:26 +0000

I’ve fixed both problems, go you!

By: SpotSec

SpotSec — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:28:15 +0000

what no mention of me?

hmm, the action helper example seems slightly misleading.