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Database Driven Zend Acl Tutorial Part Three

Dave Clarke — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:23:10 +0000

So in this final part of the Database Driven Zend Acl Tutorial series, I will walk you through, role inheritance and allow/deny exceptions per user. There will also be a download of a working version which can be found at the end of this article. The download will contain my ORM of choice for accessing [...]

Database Driven Zend ACL Tutorial Part Two

Dave Clarke — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:50:40 +0000

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 [...]

Database Driven Zend ACL Tutorial Part One

Dave Clarke — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:52:58 +0000

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; Database structure Roles,Resources and Users Generating resources from your actions Creating the ACL Role Inheritance Allowing and dis-allowing specific resources for a particular user Zend ACL [...]

Database Driven Zend ACL Controlling Access To Your Web Application

Dave Clarke — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:49:59 +0000

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 [...]

Prevent Image Hot Linking from Apache Web Servers

Dave Clarke — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:13:44 +0000

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yoursite\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/2806/hotlink.gif [L] The first condition [...]

Zend Framework 1.10 and Smarty 3 RC4

Dave Clarke — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:09 +0000

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 [...]

Affiliate Schemes, do they really work?

Dave Clarke — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:55:24 +0000

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. So what’s this new post all about? Well [...]

HowTo: MythTV and the Nova TD-500 TV Card

Dave Clarke — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:23:09 +0000

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. After doing my usual research routine I finally decided to go for the Happuage T-500 card. At first you [...]

Netgear WG111 on Debian with NDISWrapper and WPA

Dave Clarke — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:45:38 +0000

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 [...]

Prevent Image Hot Linking on Zeus Web Servers

Dave Clarke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:00:48 +0000

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. Straight away, I said no problem. 2-3 lines in your .htaccess file should do [...]