Hi, here is an enhancement I'd like to propose for a "may be" future use of the cakephp framework.
I'll describe this as a case study : What I'd like to do is to be able to use CakePHP as a simple portal that would be responsible for authentification and redirection purpose. (maybe add this and that but that's not the point). The idea is to use Cake to get access to several CMS/LMS/etc platform. What I actually have in mind are the universities that are using many many different platform (Moodle, Dokeos, Yams, Post-nuke, whatever, name it it probably is used somewhere.) to suit the needs of a complex organisation of department, teachers needs and will, etc. Currently, what I see are complex platforms with overrated authentification process (mean auth is 3 times to get access to one platform, 5 to two, etc.). Why is it this way is good for a blog post.. But the idea would be to use CakePHP to get directly to the platforms. Using one Authentification/session process that could be passed to the other CMS throught a custom pipe or else. That would be rather easy if the vendors directory was not limited only to piped access to js, css & img files. The idea would be to use a complete piped access to every files that a vendors directory would contain. Suppose a Moodle & a Mediawiki platform that must be accessible only to a particular group of person. That would be easy to manage this through Cake and then pipe the identification into those platforms through server communication instead of cookies that are seen by most academic managers as a potential insecurity (cookies are not the point here ;) ). Meaning that if a user calls : unisite.edu/moodle/somemodule/chat.php?id=xxxxx Cake would refer to the file : /cake/vendors/moodle/somemodule/chat.php + $_GET[id] = xxx +++ All the cake stuff I'm not sure if I'm clear, but I see in this huge possibilities for future uses of the framework. I'm talking mainly about authentification process because that's how I thought of Cake as a savior.. But essentially, all the great feature of cake could be added.. What about internationnalisation ? Why not use Cake to re- write Mediawiki to make it really multi-lingual, etc. :P (ok, i'm dreaming a little.. but why not?) Cheers, David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
