----- Original Message ----- From: "Cutter (CF_Talk)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm working on a site for a school district's adult ed program. They are > requiring no less than 4 different "access" areas with multiple levels > of control. After a little research I'm expanding upon a roles based > security model that I originally read about on the MM site (CFC best > practices: Component functions and function invocation by Anthony > McClure, > http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/cfc_practices.html). > A very basic outline is given, and the sample includes (ohboy) an Access > db, but with fairly minor modification it can be put together into a > viable roles based security model. ---------------------------
I'll check this out, but my post was less about user security models than about modelling "people" in a more general fashion using CFC's. So if there are company contacts, it's not necessarily so that every contact will have a login account. But some administrators might be contacts. So it seemed like it might be a good idea to have a top-level "person" CFC, which would contain stuff like name, email, personal info, etc., that would be common to all people on the site, then have a "contact" CFC and a "administrator" CFC, which both extend "person". Another example is a personal project, http://norlonto.net, which has a table of people associated with content items. Relationships are formed between the "content" and "people" tables to specify interview subjects, authors of books reviewed, directors of films reviewed, etc. Then you can list all the content on the site associated with specific people: http://norlonto.net/index.cfm?action=browse.people Now, some of the contributors are interviewed on the site, or have their book reviewed. Without CFC's, and admittedly without as much planning as could have been done, the resulting code to manage the updating and synchronisation of contributors who also have a "people" record has become quite brain-curdling. This is what got me thinking about changing the template I use so that there is a top-level "people" DB table/CFC, with specific types of people - users, administrators, contacts, writers, directors, etc. - branching off with subtype CFC's. Anyone done anything similar? Gyrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: http://www.tengai.co.uk play: http://norlonto.net PGP key available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
