The Zend Framework in Practice

In my previous post about creating an authentication class, I made use of another class, called Application_Model_Identity, to store the details of the user, who has logged in. In this post, I intended to look at some of the things that can be done with such a class, drawing on some of the applications that I have developed myself. (more…)

I prefer to encapsulate the code for logging in and out in a class. In the example I am using for this series of posts, the class is called Application_Model_Login. We have already seen in this post how it is used in the Login Controller. (more…)

In a previous post, I looked at creating a custom resource plugin to create a logger. Since I wrote that code, a standard resource plugin to perform this function has been created. At first sight the standard plugin is inferior, in that the custom plugin allows for the insertion of a date into the log filename, which allows a new log to be created every day, while the standard plugin requires a fixed filename specified in the configuration file. However, I have worked out a simple mechanism for adding a date stamp to the filename, which I shall share in this article. (more…)

So far, we have been looking at how to use several of the standard resource plugins that come with Zend_Application in order to initialise application resources. It is possible, indeed encouraged, to create your own custom resource plugins to handle the initialisation of resources that fall outside their scope. (more…)