Introduction
This example shows how to implement Zend_Acl with a database backend. Roles, Resources and Users are stored in a database and can easily be queried. This ACL implementation uses 5 basic roles and uses Zend_Acl inheritance.
Firstly, the database tables and initial roles and resources need to be built.
Ini files
I have chosen to use .ini files for the initial setup for ease of use and customization.
roles.ini
This .ini defines the roles to be used in the ACL.
users.ini
This .ini file simply maps users to roles for the initial build.
resources.ini
This .ini file maps resources to roles for the initial build. The resources will be stored in the database as 'group:resource'. In the example .ini file below this would mean that the 'Load' resource would be stored as 'Applications:Load'.
Database Initialisation:
The following code uses the above .ini files to build the initial database tables.
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