Php – Best way to embed Login Form in Zend Framework pages

There are a couple of places you could run your checks against your ACL:

1. Where you have your loop (or hardcoded block) to load each form.
2. In the constructor of each of the Form Objects, perhaps throwing a custom exception, which can be caught and appropriately handled.
3. From the constructor of an extension of Zend_Form from which all your custom Form objects are extended (probably the best method, as it helps reduce code duplication).

Keep in mind, that if you are using ZF to perform an AJAXy solution for your updating, your controller needs to run the ACL check in it's init() method as well, preventing unauthorized changes to your DB.

Hope that helps.

First advice is to avoid the Action view helper at all costs, it will probably be removed in ZF 2.0 anyway. (ZF-5840) (Why the actionstack is evil)

This is related to a question I asked - and bittarman's answer is pretty useful. The best way to implement something like that is to have a view helper that can generate your "login" area. My_View_Helper_Login for instance. Then your layout can call $this->login(), and so can the view script for user/login. As far as having index/index render the content from news/list just forward the request to the other controller/action from the controller. $this->_forward('list', 'news');