Hi,

I hv gone thru the Zend_Acl functionalities in the ZF online manual. I dont understand that why we need that. We can create users type in a separate table and from there we can set different privileges while creating . And while the user is logging in we can view their pages based on their user level. This is what we are doing now. But i dont understand this Zend_Acl Role and Resource allotment. Can any one please explain about this? So that i can use this in my project and improve.

- Mugesh.

I think the thing to keep in mind about a lot of these components is that they are good to use not necessarily because they are better than something you have created but because they are well documented and their usage has been generalized to a certain degree for flexibility.

Something cool about Zend_Acl is that a list can either be stored as as a config file or an xml file which is cool. the whole list can then be stored as a session variable.

The framework is all about defining really basic components of a web application that can be reused for another project.

it's all about usability and reusability.