I am currently working on a site that requires ACL and as I am using Zend, it makes sense for me to make use of their ACL class but I have little to zero idea of how to do this. I have read the docs but it confused me further...basically all I want to do is to set up two user groups e.g. "normal" and "admin", normal users can access all pages that have a controller that is not admin while admin can obviously access the admin controller pages.
I have many questions:
- How do I set this up?
- Should I run it through a DB or the config.ini?
- Where do I place my ACL.php?
- How do I write such a script?
- How do I then call, is this done in the Index?.
I would very much appreciate if you guide me to a website or a good tutorial.
I implemented similar thing not so long ago. Basic concept follows in an example code.
I created my own configAcl.php file which is loaded in bootstrap file, in my case it is index.php. Here is how it'd be according to your case:
$acl = new Zend_Acl();
$roles = array('admin', 'normal');
// Controller script names. You have to add all of them if credential check
// is global to your application.
$controllers = array('auth', 'index', 'news', 'admin');
foreach ($roles as $role) {
$acl->addRole(new Zend_Acl_Role($role));
}
foreach ($controllers as $controller) {
$acl->add(new Zend_Acl_Resource($controller));
}
// Here comes credential definiton for admin user.
$acl->allow('admin'); // Has access to everything.
// Here comes credential definition for normal user.
$acl->allow('normal'); // Has access to everything...
$acl->deny('normal', 'admin'); // ... except the admin controller.
// Finally I store whole ACL definition to registry for use
// in AuthPlugin plugin.
$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
$registry->set('acl', $acl);
Another case is if you want to allow normal user only "list" action on all your controllers. It's pretty simple, you'd add line like this:
$acl->allow('normal', null, 'list'); // Has access to all controller list actions.
Next you should create new plugin which takes care of credential checking automatically when there is a request for some controller action. This checking takes place in preDispatch() method that is called before every call to the controller action.
Here is AuthPlugin.php:
class AuthPlugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
$loginController = 'auth';
$loginAction = 'login';
$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();
// If user is not logged in and is not requesting login page
// - redirect to login page.
if (!$auth->hasIdentity()
&& $request->getControllerName() != $loginController
&& $request->getActionName() != $loginAction) {
$redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('Redirector');
$redirector->gotoSimpleAndExit($loginAction, $loginController);
}
// User is logged in or on login page.
if ($auth->hasIdentity()) {
// Is logged in
// Let's check the credential
$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
$acl = $registry->get('acl');
$identity = $auth->getIdentity();
// role is a column in the user table (database)
$isAllowed = $acl->isAllowed($identity->role,
$request->getControllerName(),
$request->getActionName());
if (!$isAllowed) {
$redirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('Redirector');
$redirector->gotoUrlAndExit('/');
}
}
}
}
Final steps are loading your configAcl.php and register the AuthPlugin in bootstrap file (probably index.php).
require_once '../application/configAcl.php';
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$frontController->registerPlugin(new AuthPlugin());
So this is the basic concept. I didn't test the code above (copy and paste and rewrite just for the showcase purpose) so it's not bullet-proof. Just to give an idea.
EDIT
For the clarity. The code above in AuthPlugin suppose that the $identity object is filled with user data ("role" column in the database). This could be done within the login process like this:
[...]
$authAdapter = new Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable($db);
$authAdapter->setTableName('Users');
$authAdapter->setIdentityColumn('username');
$authAdapter->setCredentialColumn('password');
$authAdapter->setIdentity($username);
$authAdapter->setCredential(sha1($password));
$authAdapter->setCredentialTreatment('? AND active = 1');
$auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();
$result = $auth->authenticate($authAdapter);
if ($result->isValid()) {
$data = $authAdapter->getResultRowObject(null, 'password'); // without password
$auth->getStorage()->write($data);
[...]
This solution may prove to be the simplest implementation of Zend_Acl.
Example:
class UserController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
public function preDispatch(){
$resource = 'user_area';
$privilege = $this->_request->getActionName();
if (!$this->_helper->acl($resource, $privilege)) $this->_redirect();
}
}
Zend/Controller/Action/Helper/Acl.php
class Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Acl extends Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract {
protected $acl;
protected $role;
protected function getAcl(){
if (is_null($this->acl)){
$acl = new Zend_Acl();
$acl->addResource(new Zend_Acl_Resource('user_area'));
$acl->addResource(new Zend_Acl_Resource('customer_area'), 'user_area');
$acl->addResource(new Zend_Acl_Resource('web_area'));
$acl->addRole(new Zend_Acl_Role('guest'));
$acl->addRole(new Zend_Acl_Role('user'), 'guest');
$acl->allow('guest', 'web_area');
$acl->allow('guest', 'user_area', array(
'forgot-password',
'login'
));
$acl->allow('user', 'user_area');
$acl->allow('customer', 'customer_area');
$this->acl = $acl;
}
return $this->acl;
}
protected function getRole(){
if (is_null($this->role)){
$session = new Zend_Session_Namespace('session');
$role = (isset($session->userType)) ? $session->userType : 'guest';
$this->role = $role;
}
return $this->role;
}
public function direct($resource, $privilege = null){
$acl = $this->getAcl();
$role = $this->getRole();
$allowed = $acl->isAllowed($role, $resource, $privilege);
return $allowed;
}
}
Play with This structure . get role and resource from database and save this in session for or any caching .