-- J DeBord <[email protected]> wrote (on Thursday, 16 July 2009, 09:30 AM +0200): > I created a front controller plugin for checking my ACL against the user's > role. It first checks Zend_Auth for an identity. If an identity exists, it > grabs the identity's role. If no identity exists, it uses 'guest' as the > default role. I hooked into the preDispatch() method of the front controller > plugin. > > This works, except that I've lost my "page not found functionality". So I get > "resource not found" or "not authorized" message when requests for non > existance controllers or actions are made. > > Would it be better to have the controllers extend a "BaseController" that does > the ACL checks in the init() method? > > What is the preferred way or best practice for running the ACL checks?
Use an action helper with a preDispatch() hook, and register it in your bootstrap. :) -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | [email protected] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
