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Zend Framework in Action
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Zend Framework in Action

by Nick Lo, Rob Allen, Steven K. J. Brown
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 39m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 7. User authentication and access control

This chapter covers
  • The basics of authentication and access control
  • Using Zend_Auth for logging into an application
  • Using Zend_Acl to restrict access to certain web pages

Most websites restrict different areas to different people. For example, most e-commerce sites require that you’re logged in before you can check out your order. Other sites have members-only pages that can only be accessed after logging in. In our Places application, only registered users can write or rate a review. This functionality is known as authentication and access control, and in this chapter we’ll look at the support Zend Framework provides in the shape of the Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl components. We’ll start by looking ...

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