Yes if you read the ACL section of the manual it clearly states to use null for the top level group.
It is advisable in my opinion to make one group 'entire_site' and give yourself unfettered access without having to declare things individually. THis group would have a parent id of nul. On Mar 27, 12:44 pm, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link but it doesn't explain what I'm looking for, which > is the DB table schema. I'm familiar with MPTT (and have used it > before) but Cake's parent_id has me confused. > > But I thought to look at db_acl.sql, which shows parent_id DEFAULT > NULL so I'll go with that. > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:27 AM, djiize <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For nested groups, you should read this post: > >http://edwardawebb.com/programming/php-programming/cakephp/nested-tre... > > > In ACL, I (personnaly) think it's a good idea to have a ROOT group, > > even if you don't use it now, maybe later ;) > > > If you don't want one, a NULL value should suffice. > > > On 27 mar, 05:16, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I need to have nested groups, so the table has a parent_id column. > >> But, should top-level groups have a NULL parent_id? Or would there > >> have to be a ROOT group, so to speak? I'm having a real hard time > >> sorting all this out. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
