I extended the Zend Frontcontroller with a personal one and also extended the frontcontroller application resource to use my personal front controller. All it basically does for the moment is assign the front variable within the application resource method getFrontController to my personal front controller. Lastly, I added the pluginpaths variable within application.ini to use my personal Application Resources. In any case, I'm getting the Zend Frontcontroller returned to me instead of my personal one. Anybody know why my personal application frontcontroller resource
isnt being used?
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Since Zend_Controller_Front is a singleton, you will also need to override the getInstance() method to ensure it creates an instance of your class instead of the base class. You can just cut and paste the method to do this:
public static function getInstance()
{
if (null === self::$_instance) {
self::$_instance = new self();
}
return self::$_instance;
}
This is elementary question.
I downloaded the Facebook PHP SDK and stored it in "third_party" folder within Codeigniter. I am hoping that is where it should go. But how do you load such PHP SDK?
Thanks
I ended up sticking in in CI's libraries directory and adding it to the libraries autoload in config/autoload.php
autoload.php:
$autoload['libraries'] = array('facebook');
Then, I made a small change to the Facebook implementation itself (constructor of the Facebook class) and added the keys to my app's config file:
public function __construct()
{
$ci =& get_instance();
$this->setAppId($ci->config->item('fb_appId'));
$this->setApiSecret($ci->config->item('fb_secret'));
$this->setCookieSupport($ci->config->item('fb_cookie'));
$this->setBaseDomain($ci->config->item('fb_domain'));
$this->setFileUploadSupport($ci->config->item('fb_upload'));
}
...And presto - you now have access to Facebook's API in your models and controllers via $this->facebook
I need to know how to get the current module name in the bootstrap file of my zend application. On the load of the page I'm doing a request to a webservice to get the current user information by sending a hashed cookie and a token. The problem is that I only need to do this in two of my 3 modules so i need to be able to ask for example.
if ($moduleName !== "filteredmodule"){
// do the request
}
Thanks.
Bootstrap is for getting the application ready. I suggest you do this kind of call in a Controller Plugin (which you can use to get the current called module) or in the init() function of your controller.
This is how to get the current module via controller plugin:
<?php
final class YourApp_Controller_Plugin_YourPluginName extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract {
public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request) {
$module = $request->getModuleName(); //This is the module
Docs: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.plugins.html
One thing regarding Ashley's answer:
If you want to do
$module = $request->getModuleName();
as soon as possible, then do it in routeShutdown().
As the documentation states, "routeStartup() is called before Zend_Controller_Front calls on the router to evaluate the request against the registered routes. routeShutdown() is called after the router finishes routing the request."
So router dependant request parameters like module, controller, action or any other parameters specified in the route will be accessible in routeShutdown() and later functions.
I've got a pretty standard ACL system in my application. There's a Login controller and a bunch of other controllers redirecting back to Login if user is not authorized. I use a Controller Plugin for checking the ID and redirecting and I obviously don't want Login controller and Error controller to perform such a redirect.
Now I've read several times that using Controller Plugins is a better practice than subclassing the Action Controller. Yet what I see is it's much easier to extend all my controllers from this abstract base controller class which performs the necessary checking in its init method, except for the Login controller which extends Zend_Controller_Action directly.
So the question is, is there a way to attach the plugin to the controllers selectively? Of course I can always make an array out of certain controllers, send it to a plugin through a setter method and do something like:
$controller = $request->getParam('controller');
if (count($this->exceptions))
if (in_array($controller, $this->exceptions)) return;
//...check ID, perform redirect, etc...
Yet something tells me it's not the best way doing it.
And advices?
EDIT 1: #Billy ONeal
Thank you for your reply, but I don't quite catch. I can do
public function init()
{
$this->getRequest()->setParam('dropProtection', true);
}
(or run some method that sets some private variable of the plugin) in my login controller, and then say if 'dropProtection' is not true then check the user ID. But the actual dispatch process looks like this:
Plugin::dispatchLoopStartup
Plugin::preDispatch
Controller::init
Plugin::postDispatch
Plugin::preDispatch
Plugin::postDispatch
Plugin::dispatchLoopShutdown
So I cannot check this 'dropProtection' param earlier than in Plugin::postDispatch and that's a bit late. (by the way, why the preDispatch and postDispatch are being called twice?)
If you want to do it earlier, I think you can use the first method (passing an array of exceptions to the plugin) and test the module name or the controller name in routeShutdown.
Personnaly I use an action helper to check the auth in all my actions. It's more flexible and give me more control. It's only one line for each private action.
And DON'T SUBCLASS your action controller. I did it on one of my project and now my base class is a piece of shit. Use action helper instead.
is there a way to attach the plugin to the controllers selectively?
Of course. Just don't register the plugin if the request doesn't contain the parameters you're looking for. Alternately, assume all pages are protected, and have those pages which should not be protected call some method on your plugin during the init stage.
If you want to protect just a single controller, you could reverse that -- have the plugin only take action if there's some method called during the init stage.
Finally, you could make the entire logged-in section of the page it's own module, which would allow you to have the plugin check for that module before checking credentials and redirecting.
I have a project in which I want to be able to call wp_list_pages() on a page that also uses the Zend Framework to power some complex interfaces manages custom data outside of wordpress.
This page should also redirect the user to the wordpress login screen if they're not already logged in with the appropriate level of authorization.
How would this work at a high level, i.e. do I need to edit the wordpress bootstrap file to conditionally implement the custom interface based on a specific URL or something, but still include certain files to be able to call wp_list_pages() on that custom interface?
I've developed a couple of WordPress plugins, and I've found it's really easy to extend. Haven't worked with Zend though.
You should check the WordPress plugin api. Mostly the part about actions, filters and hooks: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API
You can even override some functions (not sure if wp_list_pages() is overridable).
It's pretty well documented, and there's a large developer community behind it on IRC, forums, etc.
Thanks Fernando.
I just read this thread which suggests that you can use Zend in any script by just including:
require_once('Zend/Loader.php');
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();
So given that all I need to use Zend for is on one page, can I just include that code in a custom template file that I assign to the appropriate page in the navigation? If I used javascript to submit the form via XHR, the requested URL would take the form '/controller/action' - but Zend wouldn't know the controller directory.
Could I put Zend code into the wordpress bootstrap, i.e. the above code plus the frontController configuration, and then use Zend wherever however?
So I've created a page in Wordpress and a custom template for that page, in which I've placed the following Zend Framework code:
require_once('Zend/Loader.php');
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();
$db = Zend_Db::factory('Pdo_Mysql', array(
'host' => 'localhost',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'dbname' => 'dbname'
));
Zend_Db_Table::setDefaultAdapter($db);
class Users extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract {
protected $_name = 'wp_users';
}
$users = new Users();
$users = $users->fetchAll()->toArray();
print_r($users[0]['user_login']);
This all works fine, so it's clearly possible to use Zend in conjuction with Wordpress at least to some extent.
It's becoming apparant that the problem is about who controls the URL rewriting, or the routing, or the bootstrapping (not sure of the correct terminology). If I were to put the end of the above code, starting $users = new Users();, into a controller as follows:
class UsersController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
function getUserAction() {
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
$users = new Users();
$users = $users->fetchAll()->toArray();
echo $users[0]['user_login'];
}
}
How would I then call that function? My intention would be to call it from javascript via an XHR request in response to an event on the page, but requesting the URL 'index.php/Users/getUser/' returns 'No input file selected'. Trying to access the URL http://www.domain.com/Users/getUser/ produces a Wordpress 404 page.
Is there a way around this? It doesn't just apply to wordpress, of course - I expect it applies to any existing application that rewrites/routes requests via a bootstrap.
I guess you could do that, just import the framework into the one page you need it for. I don't know how Zend works, but check the paths as to where to put your directories so that Zend finds them.As I said I guess you could do that, just experiment and tell us how it went!
Beware of name conflicts for functions and/or variables, this shouldn't be much of a problem coming from such popular products as WordPress and Zend though... (which should be theoretically well coded)
I guess you could do that, just import the framework into the one page you need it for. I don't know how Zend works, but check the paths as to where to put your directories so that Zend finds them.As I said I guess you could do that, just experiment and tell us how it went!
Beware of name conflicts for functions and/or variables, this shouldn't be much of a problem coming from such popular products as WordPress and Zend though... (which should be theoretically well coded)
I've built a plugin for wordpress that has a similar goal to yours, more modeled on CodeIgniter though. Not knowing Zend terribly well, I think this should help:
Make a file named routes.php in your plugins directory with the following code:
add_action( 'init', 'add_custom_urls' );
function add_custom_urls(){
global $wp, $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->add_rule( '(.*)$', 'index.php?&cPath=$matches[1]', 'top' );
$wp->add_query_var( 'cPath' );
}
Be sure to activate both plugins in your admin. These two files will allow you to catch the url before Wordpress tries to figure out what to do with it. You can use regular expressions to have finer control over which pages to catch. You may have to delete the record in your _options db table where option_name = 'rewrite_rules' before this works.
Next, make another plugin with the following code:
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'bootstrap' );
function bootstrap(){
global $cPath;
echo( "cPath : $cPath" );
if( $cPath ){
dosomethingwith( $cPath );
}
}
Put all your code in the dosomethingwith() function. You'll need to figure out if the url requested can me mapped to a zend controller, etc. http://www.domain.com/Users/getUser/ would give you $cPath = Users/getUser/ If successful, you'll also probably want to die(), so once it is completed Wordpress won't try and take over again.