In this example, we have a plugin that checks if a user is logged in and has access to the requested action. If the user fails the ACL check, we save the current URL and redirect the user to a login page.

<?php
// [...]
// Inside a controller plugin
class My_Auth_Plugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
    /**
     * Predispatch
     *
     * @param Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request
     */
    public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        // Check if user is authenticated
        // [...]
 
        // Store url before redirecting user to login page
        $flashRedirector = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('FlashRedirector');
        $flashRedirector->setRedirect($request->getRequestUri());
 
        // Redirect to login page
        // [...]
    }
}

On the login page, we can use the stored url to redirect the user to their requested page after login. If the user mis-typed their password, we must extend the redirect with extendRedirect() to keep it for the next request. By default, urls are only kept for one request. If you need them for more than one, you can do setExpirationHops(4 /*requests*/) to change the number of requests to keep the url.

After a success, you can either use the builtin redirect functions redirect(array('code' => 303)) or redirectAndExit(); If you would rather process the redirect yourself, you can use getRedirect() to retrieve the url.

You do not have to check if a redirect exists with hasRedirect() although it is recommended.

<?php
class LoginController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
{
    public function loginAction()
    {
        $flashRedirector = $this->getHelper('FlashRedirector');
 
        // Login [...]
 
        if (!$auth) {
            // User failed auth, extend the redirect 
            // and reshow login form
 
            if ($flashRedirector->hasRedirect()) {
                $flashRedirector->extendRedirect();
            }
        } else {
            // Authentication sucess!
            // Redirect to previous requested page
 
            if ($flashRedirector->hasRedirect()) {
                $flashRedirector->redirect();
 
                // $flashRedirector->redirectAndExit();
            }
        }
    }
}

A form can be simply loaded from the action like so...

<?php
class Foo_BarController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        // Loads from current module 'Foo'/forms/Example.php
        $form = $this->getHelper('Form')->create('Example');
 
        $this->view->form = $form;
    }
}

A short hand version of creating form objects is just create() without params. It will load a form with the name [CurrentController][CurrentAction]. In other words, IndexController::fooAction() would result in IndexFoo.php form.

<?php
class Foo_BarController extends Zend_Controller_Action 
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        // Loads from current module 'Foo'/forms/BarIndex.php
        $form = $this->getHelper('Form')->create();
 
        $this->view->form = $form;
    }
}

<?php
// Bootstrap
Zend_Registry::set('Zym_Navigation', new Zym_Navigation());
 
// Inside controller action
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $helper     = $this->getHelper('Navigation');
        $navigation = $helper->getNavigation();
 
        // Direct method
        $navigation = $this->_helper->navigation();
    }
}

<?php
// Bootstrap
$translate = new Zend_Translate('gettext', '../data');
Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Translate', $translate);
 
// Inside controller action
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $helper = $this->getHelper('Translator');
        $text   = $helper->translate('foo');
        $text   = $helper->translate('foo %s', 'placeholder');
 
        // Short syntax
        $text   = $helper->_('foo');
 
        // Direct method
        $text = $this->_helper->translator('test');
        $text = $this->_helper->translator('test %s', 'placeholder');
 
        // Output different locale using last param
        $locale = new Zend_Locale('en_US');
        $text = $this->_helper->translator('test', $locale);
        $text = $this->_helper->translator('test', 'de');
        $text = $this->_helper->translator('test %s', 'placeholder', $locale);
    }
}