Hi Fred,
To get the id of a specific group you should use
$data = $group->find ('first', array ('conditions' => array ('name' =>
'admins')));
$id = $data['Group']['id'];
bye
me.
On Jan 6, 11:34 pm, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am new to Cake and have read the Cookbook, tutorials, searched here,
> etc. and have a few questions on ACL.
>
> I have created ARO/ACO's as they do in the tutorial and that works
> great.I can then get things to work as such:
>
> $group =& $this->User->Group;
> //Allow admins to everything
> $group->id = 4; // my admin group id
> $this->Acl->allow($group, 'controllers');
>
> then to check in a controller do
> $group =& $this->User->Group;
> $group->id = 4;
> debug($this->Acl->check($group,'controllers/Pages/display'));
>
> And this works.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1) I would like to do this without using the id since that could
> change. I have tried using $group->name= 'admin'; but that doesn't
> work (I have a table group with field name and an entry admin). Is
> there a way to not use IDs to reference the groups as they do in the
> tutorial?
> 1) To check the ACL I have debugged the $group object and it is huge.
> I am worried about how much memory/resources this is taking up just to
> find the page. Is there a shorter/smaller set of things I can pass to
> the check that is less memory/resource intensive. Loading the entire
> user and group objects into memory everytime you want to check
> permissions seems like overkill.
>
> Thank you.
> Fred
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