Thursday, 31 May 2007

Zend Framework RC1 and Zend ACL Usage

Nick Halstead talks about a the recently released RC1 of Zend Framework and about the class that extends the Zend ACL.

The Zend Framework being written in PHP 5 has facilitated the ability to extend everything. Every part of the framework seems to be bursting with abilities to extend in different directions, he says. This can be either via helpers, plugins or just simple sub-classing.

In his own project he have extended the Zend ACL to add a range of functionality most of which is beyond his usual time constraints for documenting for a blog post. He covers one small method that he have found useful.

The method is that ACL allows rules to be assigned under different resources so that you can separate rules or in fact repeat the same rule under the same different resources.

He gives some codes and examples to explain the concept of ACL.