Question

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am working hard on a new webapplication which is based on the Zend Framework.
Almost the whole webapplication will be secured with a login(username and password).

My idea is to check if the visitor can be authenticated and if not check if the user is requesting a login route. If he is not trying to login he will be redirected to the login page.

<?php

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{  
    /**
     * Bootstrap::_initRouterRewrites()
     * 
     * @return void
     */
    protected function _initRouterRewrites()
    {
        $frontController  = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $this->router = $frontController->getRouter();

        $this->router->addRoute(
            'default',
            new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('/',
                                            array('controller' => 'index',
                                                  'action' => 'index'))
                     )
                     ->addRoute(
            'login',
            new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('/inloggen.html',
                                            array('controller' => 'auth',
                                                  'action' => 'login'))
        ); 
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap::_initZendSession()
     * 
     * @return void
     */
    protected function _initZendSession()
    {
        // Ensure that both the session and the db resources are bootstrapped
        $this->bootstrap(array('db', 'session'));

        // Actually start the session
        Zend_Session::start();
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap::_initAuthentication()
     * 
     * @return void
     */
    protected function _initAuthentication()
    {
        // Instantiate auth object
        $auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();

        // Check if visitor has an identity
        if (!$auth->hasIdentity())
        {

        }
    }
}

When I use the method $this->router->getCurrrentRoute() inthe _initAuthentication method I get the following error: “Current route is not defined”.

What can I do to check if the current route is login?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

At the time of bootstrapping routing has run yet. What you need here is a FrontController Plugin that hooks into the request lifecycle at the appropriate place . In your case that is probably going to be during routeShutdown after the routing has determined where to dispatch the request.

From http://devzone.zend.com/1692/zend-framework-mvc-request-lifecycle/: