Question

I need to check for a condition on each page I visit on the website.

Basically, the user account’s have a time limit, and if the user account has expired I need to redirect them to the renew page, this way they can log in to the system but can only access the renew page.

I could just make a function and call it on every action for every controller, but this doesn’t make any sense, I could also do some hacking on bootstrap, but this doesn’t seem the right solution also.

How can i do this the right way? Or maybe the bootstrap is the right way?

Answer 1

I think the best way to achieve that is to add Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract to your application and implement the logic in the preDispatch method.

You will be able to do the checks and redirect the user with the Redirector helper.

$redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('Redirector');
$redirector->gotoSimpleAndExit('myaction', 'mycontroller', 'mymodule');