zend-framework-mvc

My goal is to require login for certain pages. I am using Zend Framework MVC, and I'm trying to find examples regarding best practices. Some notes on what I'm looking for: I want non-logged in users to get a login box, and then return to logged in version of the page, once authenticated I want to use dependency injection, and avoid singletons Small code footprint - tie into Zend mvc structure Should login box be a separate controller and do header redirect? How to return to landing page after auth success? An idea to simply call the login controller action to display the login box in the

Could someone give few tips and/or examples how Controller Plugins and Action Helpers are different? Are there situations where particular task could be accomplished with one but not another? For me they both look more or less the same and I'm often having trouble having to decide when to use what... Are there any big differences? Controller plugins can hook into any controller at any point in the routing process (preDispatch postDispatch, routeStartup, routeShutdown) which makes them apt at providing behind the scenes functionality like ACL enforcement. Action Helpers are for for reusable but

I have asked this question yesterday as well, but this one includes code. Issue My application have multiple modules and 2 types of user accounts, Some modules are loaded always which are present in application.config.php some of them are conditional i.e. some are loaded for user type A and some for user type B After going through documentations and questions on Stack Overflow, I understand some of ModuleManager functionalities and started implementing the logic that I though might work. Some how I figured out a way to load the modules that are not present in application.config.php [SUCCESS]

I have experienced Zend Framework 1 and I've build some apps with that framework. Now, I'm experimenting Zend Framework 2, but I'm stuck on the url parameters. I've setup my routing like this: // Setup for router and routes 'Zend\Mvc\Router\RouteStack' => array( 'parameters' => array( 'routes' => array( 'default' => array( 'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment', 'options' => array( 'route' => '/[:slug]', 'constraints' => array( 'slug' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_\/-]*' ), 'defaults' => array( 'controller' => 'Htmlsite\Controller\BootController', 'action' => 'index', 'slug' => 'home' ), ), ),

I know with ZF1 you would retrieve the module/controller name using custom View Helpers that would get the singleton frontController object and get the name there. Using ZF2 as they've abolished alot of the singleton nature of the framework and introduced DI where I've specified aliases for all of my controllers within this module... I can imagine I would get it through accessing the DI or perhaps injecting the current name into the layout. Anyone got any idea how you would do it. I guess there a hundred different ways but after sniffing about the code for a few hours I can't really figure out

So far, I have figured out how to return a typical JSON response in Zend Framework 2. First, I added the ViewJsonStrategy to the strategies section of the view_manager configuration. Then, instead of returning a ViewModel instance from the controller action, I return a JsonModel instance with all my variables set. Now that I've figured that piece out, I need to understand how to render a view and return it within that JSON response. In ZF1, I was able to use $this->view->render($scriptName) , which returned the HTML as a string. In ZF2, the Zend\View\View::render(...) method returns void . So.