Posts Tagged Zend Framework
Alternative to Zend_Form ViewScript decorator
Posted by Avi in Programming on November 29th, 2009
Zend_Form is great for prototyping forms. It takes a lot of the drudge work out, and makes forms easily “reusable”. The decorator system, which is admittedly a little scary for the uninitiated, is actually very powerful. I’m suer that eventually, however, we’ve all reached that point. The point where you spend more time configuring the form to do what you want, then actually doing something with it. Read the rest of this entry »
ACL in Zend Framework
Posted by Avi in Programming on March 19th, 2009
When I first started using the Zend Framework, one of the most confusing things was the ACL component. Even after I succesfully implemented an ACL solution in my app, something seemed wrong with it.
I would like to argue that the proper use for the Zend ACL is actually impossible, since there is a reported bug in the code which, to my knowledge, has not been fixed.
The use case I will discuss is where you want to only authors to edit articles and only to articles authored by themselves. I think this is a fairly common case.
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