Hi, I'm implementing Zend_Auth scheme and do not understand what is the best way to store role of the user.
My scheme is based on http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1665 (which seems broken now because last code fragment is incomplete) and I want to store user's identity and all associated information in the session storage as follows: class SomeAuthAdapter extends ... { ... function authenticate() { ... return new Zend_Auth_Result($authResult['code'], array('name' => ..., 'role' => ..., ...), $authResult['messages']); } ... } $adapter = new SomeAuthAdapter(); $adapter->setIdentity($name); $adapter->setCredential($password); $auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance(); $auth->authenticate($adapter); authenticate() calls $this->getStorage()->write($result->getIdentity()); and identity is supposed to be string only. So what if I want to store Visible Name, Role, Email and other attributes associated with the identity? It will be interesting to use serialize/deserialize calls in Zend_Auth_Storage_Session's read() and write() so it will be possible to store identity object of any type. Or maybe add Identity class or Principal class with get/setIdentity() to store unique identity and get/setProperty() to store associated data? Sincerely, -- Alexander http://www.alexatnet.com/ - Blog and CMS created with Zend Framework and Ajax.
