I am developing a ZF2 based site. I have a main navigation which stays same regardless of the visitor/user status. Need to add another component/nav, which will depend on the user's status and role. For a visitor the items will be
- Register
- Login
- EN (Actually a drop-down, with other available language)
For a logged-in normal user, it will display
- Profile
- Logout
- EN (Language selector as mentioned above)
And for some users with specific roles/permission there will be additional items
I want to use RBAC, as ACL seems bloated, and also just to check if the current logged in user/role has additional items, I need to load the complete ACL (and we got around 15+ different types of roles).
I spent some time thinking how I have achieve this, so following are some ideas I have.
- I create an empty navigation container, and create a factory. In the factory, I access the Authentication and RBAC and add the pages depending on the the user's status/role.
- I create a fully loaded navigation with all the possible pages, then in the factory, with the help of Authentication and RBAC I hide the pages I don't want to show.
rd option is to use a view helper which will get RBAC via ServiceLayer and generate the navigation. (As discussed in ZF2 how to display tweets in layout and ZF2 : Add a Login widget in the template.
- Or I can create a controller-plugin or just a method in module.php, and listen to the MVC_Render or MVC_Dispatch event and generate the desired navigation and add the output to a view variable.
PS: I need to use a partial as I need to add some CSS class to the language selection section. Also the navigation will be displayed in the layout.