Question

Right now I’m learning about Front Controller in ZF. I know that we can extend request flow with Front Controller’s plugins by implementing methods : routerStartup, routerShutdown, dispatchLoopStartup, preDispatch, postDispatch, dispatchLoopShutdown.

How do you use Front Controller’s plugins?
What are the real world tasks that could be solved using Front Controller’s plugins?

Answer 1

Here are a few examples:

• Access control (e.g. for an ‘admin’ section/module)
• Setting layouts based on module
• Assigning common variables to the view/layout
• Redirecting old URLs to new equivalents