Learn how to deal with the problem of repetitive HTML code by creating a template and distributing it across your application using zend_layout. Learn to use existing, and create your own, view helpers to solve more complex HTML problems such as consistency and compliance with standards.

Learn to use Zend_Acl to create application resources and allocate permissions. Then use instance of Zend_Auth to get the user’s role and check it against the resource permissions. Finally, learn the basics of MVC plugins as we make sure that the security checks are run just before the controller is called in a preDispatch method.