It "clearly states" that, does it? Would you mind pointing out that
line? I've just read that section for probably the 5th time and I
don't see it. I'm more than willing to admit that I'm still missing
it, though, as this entire subject has been rather confusing.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Smelly Eddie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>

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