Organize repetitive HTML code in a template with Zend_Layout

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.

Allocation resources and permissions with Zend_Acl

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.

Zend_Auth and Zend_Form

Learn to have zend_auth authenticate against user information located in a database and then store the aquired user data in a percistent storage (session) to be available to the rest of the application.

Also learn the basics of creating a form using zend_form.