Execute custom code for each controller action

GoofyX · April 23, 2009, 9:30am

Hi,

I want to be able to check if the user is logged in for all controller actions. The reason I want to do this is that for a user to be able to use a site, he must be logged on at all cases. No anonymous access is allowed. I have tried to override the run() method of my controller and it seems to work:

This snippet works. Two questions:

Is overriding the run() method of each controller the correct way?
Is there somewhere where I can execute my custom code for all controllers in the site?

Thanks.

qiang · April 23, 2009, 11:27am

You can define a base controller class and all your controllers would extend from this base class. Then you can put your code in beforeAction() or run() in your base controller class.

GoofyX · April 23, 2009, 12:51pm

Thanks Qiang, that was helpful!

thomas.mery · April 23, 2009, 1:48pm

Hi,

On this topic I was wondering why it was chosen not to enable this by default.

Having a BaseController created when a webapp is generated via yiic ?

Thanks