I have had a few requests to get this second part of my Zend ACL tutorial published. I apologise for the long period between part one and part two, my life has been a bit hectic of late, and I just haven’t had time. I will try not to make you wait as long for the third and final part. So happy reading and I hope it’s not a disappointment after such a long wait.
Read more of the Database Driven Zend ACL Tutorial Part Two post
In this tutorial series, I will guide you through the steps required to replicate my implementation of a database driven Zend ACL. The tutorial will cover the following topics; Read more of the Database Driven Zend ACL Tutorial Part One post
Zend Framework provides a brilliant tool for controlling access levels to your web application. This tool is called Zend_Acl. It consists of a handful of classes for generating roles and resources. These resources can then be allowed and/or dis-allowed on a per role basis. Roles can also inherit each other which makes for quite a flexible access control list.
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If you are getting stung by large bandwidth bills because someone is hot linking your images, copy the following lines in to your .htaccess file.
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Here is a quick tutorial on how to integrate Smarty 3 with Zend Framework. I’m currently using Zend Framework 1.10, but this integration should work for all versions of Zend Framework from 1.8 and above. With Smarty, I’m using Smarty 3 RC4. There are several different ways of integrating Smarty with Zend Framework, I find this the most straightforward.
Ok, so I haven’t written much on here lately, I have been way too busy. I still monitor the traffic quite often and although it’s not a brilliant blog, and the content is out of date, I still get a steady stream of traffic, thanks to google.
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After using my Myth box for just playing media from my networkfor a long time, I eventually decided to take the plunge and get a TV card, and use MythTV for what it was built for.
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Over the weekend my trusty wireless switch / bridge (Netgear WGP606) gave up on me and decided not to feed my wireless network to its 4 port switch. I relied heavily on this as it supplied the internet to a small lan that I have set up in my office, and a MythTV box which lives in my bedroom. I can’t live without this so I needed a plan…
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A client asked me to do so work on their website to prevent people from hot linking their images, as they were using up most of their bandwidth allowance and had just been dealt a hefty bill, for extra bandwidth used.
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Introduction
About 12 months ago I stumbled across this fantastic open source project known as MythTV, whilst searching google for PVR/Media Centre based software that wasn’t Windows MCE. MythTV is a wonderful piece of DIY PVR software, if you have the patients and the know how to install it.
