Re: Using Zend_Auth to retrieve a user's role to use in Zend_Acl

On 03/10/2007, Nathan Wright <thatnateguy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Subclassing the adapter isn't necessary. You should be able to do this instead:

if (Zend_Auth::getInstance()->hasIdentity()) {

$role = Zend_Auth::getInstance()->getIdentity()->role;

}

Nathan,

I wasn't able to do that, because Zend_Auth::getInstance()->getIdentity() returns a string, not an object.

 

See these two tutorials on auth & acls respectively. I found them far more helpful than the one on the zend devzone.

http://www.spotsec.com/blogs/archive/zend_auth-and-zend_auth_adapter_dbtable-tutorial.html?Itemid=125

http://www.spotsec.com/blogs/archive/zend-controller-acl-plugin.html?Itemid=125

Cheers,

ncw

On 03/10/2007, David Mintz <
david-dMffkYQFJ3MKxoK4Ny/0iQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Delighted
> to be of service!  I don't see any reason why your implementation of
> authenticate() can't do your storage work for you upon successful
> authentication.

Of course, I was being extremely stupid. Instead of returning:

new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::SUCCESS, $this->_username);

I also could've returned

new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::SUCCESS, $user); // Where $user is an array including the role and username

Problem solved!

-- 
Vincent