Action View Helper in Zend - Work around?

Question

I\'m working on building up an interface that I want to function as a \"tabbed browsing\" sort of function. Each of these tabs has already been written as an action and the

Answer 1

If you're not generating the tab/tab panes from existing markup, and you're loading the content on demand, then you simply must check whether the user has permission to access the tab before displaying the tab itself, and again when attempting to load the tab's content.

Checking whether the user has these access permissions should be an acceptable mode of operation and should not be expensive to perform.

If these actions produce content that works in some standalone page, in addition to the tabs, then the Action view helper is the corrent way to proceed. Simply perform the same ACL (or other) check performed in the action when generating the tab.