Question

In the Symfony 2 Docs

# app/config/security.yml
security:
    firewalls:
        secured_area:
            pattern:    ^/
            anonymous: ~
            form_login:
                login_path:  /login
                check_path:  /login_check

This looks like it could have multiple different form_login‘s? Is pattern required? If I define my ACL in controller actions like:

/**
 * @Secure(roles="ROLE_ADMIN")
 */
public function helloAction($name)
{
    // ...
}

Do I still need the pattern? Also which login_path and check_path will this (annotations) lead to, supposing there are multiple definitions of login_form

Answer 1

You can’t have multiple form_login‘s. What you can have is multiple firewalls. Each firewall can then contain a pattern and the form_login etc. pattern is required for each firewall. The annotations will lead to the login_path and check_path of the relevant firewall (relevant firewall being the one whose pattern matches the URL in question).