> 1) what does the model refer to? > 2) foreign key? As every model can have an ARO, using the pair (model,foreign_key) you can associate an ARO with any other model in your application. This is called "polymorphic association" (almost by AD7Six, here http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/polymorphic-behavior ).
> 3) do we need to specify the "id"? No. > Does the Alias have to be unique? Yes, it will make your life easy. For the users (Auth), I use the pair (User,$id) instead of an unique alias and is working great! On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:11 AM, bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the Alias have to be unique? If so, then I was thinking that the alias > should be the Id of my Users table, not the name (which is not unique). In > this case, would the alias and the foreign_key of the aro be the same? > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:43 AM, bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > in Cake 1.2, I need some clarifications on ACL: > > > > In the following code segment: > > > > $aro->create(); > > $aro->save(array( > > 'model'=>'User', > > 'foreign_key'=>null, > > 'parent_id'=>null, > > 'alias'=>'Admin')); > > > > 1) what does the model refer to? > > 2) foreign key? > > 3) do we need to specify the "id"? My suspicion is "no", since it is an > auto-increment column, and is used to index the rows in the ARO. Correct me > if I am wrong. > > > > I have a user registration database where I have a table Users with > primary key id (int). for the "alias" in my ARO, should the alias be the id > of the Users table then? For the "foreign_key", should this refer to the id > of the Users table? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
