I’ve created a simple application as an example for beginners starting with zend framework 1.9. I used the zf command to create the project, so it is somewhat similar to the quickstart directory structure. Many current examples are following the old directory structure which will confuse a newbie. This is just a simple blog application, missing most of the features of a full blog system such as Wordpress. It’s just designed to show how the Zend_ACL, Zend_Auth, and Zend_Form components of Zend Framework are used.

Ralph Schindler has a new post to his blog today looking at using dynamic assertions with the access control component (Zend_Acl) of the Zend Framework.

Jani’s series on Zend Framework’s Zend_Acl continues this week. In this installment he discusses how to deal with dynamic ACLs that you would store in a database and modify as needed.

Now released is the second part of Jani’s series on the Zend_Acl part of Zend Framework. This installment covers the different roles that users can have and how to define different resources.

On his blog Jani discusses the Zend_Acl module of Zend_Framework. This is the first part of a weekly series of posts that he will be writing on the subject. This first post covers common misconceptions regarding Zend_Acl and introduces the basic usage case.

Matt Stone has written a tutorial on how to use the Zend_Acl component within a CodeIgniter application. His tutorial, which contains the code and database tables needed to build a simple access control system, provides a good example of how Zend Framework’s loose coupling allows it to be easily integrated with other applications. However, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat, so if this is interesting to you, also look at another recent blog post on the same topic.

In the previous article we saw how to setup our Zend_Acl instance and how to attach it to the MVC environment (by using the Front Controller Plugin), but what about setting another action for the denied access, or how does an article be edited only by its owner?, this, and some more is what we are going to see in the following examples.

Today’s special guest is Nick Halstead. Nick has been a developer for over 15 years. Working for 10 years in the games industry working up from programmer to studio manager. Then moved into web technologies working in a number of startups. He now runs his own startup Assembleron Ltd which is developing exclusively in PHP and working with the Zend Framework.

Today Nick is going to talk to us about the Zend Access Control List.

For those of you who don’t read the Zend Framework mailing list on a daily basis (and for the purposes of this post, I’ll pretend I do) Simon Mundy has posted an example showing how to use the new Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl classes. Click on inside, I’ve got the whole thing laid out nice and neat for you.

p. Bill Karwin, the Zend Product Engineering Manager, sent out an email last night announcing a code freeze for the next point release of Zend Framework. Click on inside and I’ll share my copy with you.