The cakephp folks have a brand new tutorial that (to a certain extent) deals with my problem! It is available here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/v...her-controller

Now my problem is... I don't know jack about cake so all of the classes and methods they are calling are mysteries to me. How to translate it into zend framework? Hmmm... also, it seems so complicated! I mean, in the past you could do the checks they do in a couple of lines, set a session variable and be done with it. Is this really better?