The Zend Developer Zone has posted part two of Aldemar Bernal's in-depth look at using the Zend_Acl component of the Zend Framework to manage the access control for your application.

In part one we saw how to setup our Zend_Acl instance and how to attach it to the MVC environment (by using the Front Controller Plugin), but what about setting another action for the denied access, or how does an article be edited only by its owner?, this, and some more is what we are going to see in the following examples.

This second part is broken up into a few parts:

• Using Modules
• Using Roles
• Setting the denied error action
• Using the action helper

These two tutorials are based on this proposal for the integration of Zend_Acl into the current framework is currently pending.

The Bakery has three new articles/tutorials posted today - one dealing with using Flash as a storage method, using ACL in CakePHP 1.2 and using the AssetPackager component.

• CakeSWXPHP - SWX is the native data format for Flash. It uses SWF files to store and exchange data. It is also an implementation of an RPC gateway (currently in PHP), tools (a data analyzer/debugger and a service explorer), various APIs (Flickr, Twitter, etc.), and an ActionScript library that make creating data driven Flash and Flash Lite applications a piece of cake.
• How to use ACL with Cake PHP 1.2.x? - This tutorial will brief you on how to use Acl in CakePHP 1.2.x versions. I had tough time figuring this out. But with help of Gwoo, AD7Six & others, and doing debugging and reading code, here comes the tutorial.
• AssetPackager for CakePHP - Multiple javascript and CSS files simplify things in development, but in production they can begin to adversely affect your page loading times. With AssetPackager for CakePHP, we can have the best of both worlds by allowing multiple files during development and combining and compressing those files for deployment.

Be sure to check out The Bakery for more great CakePHP-related content.

The Bakery has six new articles/tutorials posted today on subjects ranging from working with LDAP out to Access Control:

• Sexy Cake with Krumo: Say Goodbye to print_r()
• Using ldap as a datasource: basic find example
• LDAP datasource for cakePHP
• Haml: Markup Haiku
• Real World Access Control

Check out The Bakery for more great articles and tutorials (as well as case studies on sites using the CakePHP framework).