Question

HI i would like to know how to validate a users for a specific controller, so that we can check that a specific users is authenticate before accessing resources of a controller?

Answer 1

Lets says for a specific controller in controller folder we have CashoutController. Before a user accessing this controller we will authenticate the users as below with make use of custom library.

<?php
 class CashoutController extends Zc_Controller_Action_User
 {
  public function init()
  {
    /* Initialize action controller here */
    parent::init();
  }
    // rest code goes here
 }

now we defined new library name Zc

   <?php
   class Zc_Controller_Action_User extends Zc_Controller_Action
{ 
public function init()
{
    parent::init();
    $this->validateAccess();
}

private function validateAccess()
{
    $auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();

    if (is_null($auth->getIdentity())) {
        $this->_helper->redirector('index', 'index');
    }
}
    }

where we define controller action library as

<?php

class Birdtoldme_Controller_Action extends Zend_Controller_Action
{

 }

hope this is has been an informative for you.