I am using ACL on a huge project. It does really help. I have all kind
of users and access types - access based on user groups, based on
actions, based on the company they belong to (user rights are defined
on the company user belongs to -> user can only manage certain records
in the DB per Controller).
In your situation I guess you are trying to enable certain actions for
certain users. This is how I'd do it with Auth:
SomeController extends AppController {
function beforeFilter(){
parent::beforeFilter(); //if you have defined beforeFilter in
AppController
$this->Auth->allow('logout','login');
}
}
If you are planning enabling certain actions of ALL controllers, then
add this to your AppController's beforeFilter():
$this->Auth->allow('logout','login','whateveraction'); //all of
these actions are enabled for all controllers
Hope this helps.
On Apr 23, 5:31 pm, paws_galuten <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrestled with ACL for a while, and finally decided that might be too
> much for what I'm doing. I only really need a few types of users and
> in that case it is simple enough just to have a field in the users
> table that specifies the type (or is a foreign key to the groups
> table, for example).
>
> This way, I can just use $this->Auth->user() to find out what type of
> user is logged in, and then have different things happen in the view.
>
> Here's a question... Now that I've simplified things and am not using
> ACL, I still need to restrict access to the special actions. Do I need
> to manually check the user in each action and redirect if they are not
> supposed to acces it?
>
> It seems like there are two things. 1, changing the view and making
> certain actions visible to special user types, and 2, actually
> restricting other users form those actions in case they manually type
> them into the url.
>
> I'm just trying to do the simplest thing while sticking with cake
> conventions.
> Thanks for your thoughts,
> Jason
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