ahh yes,
that is what I thought, I just wanted to make sure because my code is
working and it would be a miracle if I was using it wrong yet the code still
worked.. :-)
thanks for the clarification.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?
> Nope, sorry if I wasn't clear. The problem is not setting a user to
> roles A,B,C. There is no problem saying IsUserInRole("A"). If the user
> has roles A,B,C then they will be ok. The problem is this:
>
> If you do
>
> <cfif isUserInRoles("a,b")>
>
> You may think, "This is how I check for A OR B"
>
> However, what it's really doing is "Is User in roles A AND B"
>
> So, there is no native way to check if a user is in EITHER role A or B
> (or whatever).
>
> If that is what you want, you simply rewrite as:
>
> <cfif isUserInRole("A") or isUserInRole("B")>
>
> Or you use the UDF I mentioned at cflib.
>
> Does it make sense now?
>
> A typical scenario where you need this is the concept of
>
> For this action, only an editor or the ROOT admin can do it.
>
> Ie, ROOT users can do _anything_.
>
> That help?
>
> ========================================================================
> ===
> Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc
> (www.mindseye.com)
> Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia)
>
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:08 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?
> >
> >
> > Ray,
> >
> > Just so I am clear, are you saying that if a user logs into
> > my system and has the roles set "role1,role2,role3" and I
> > want to allow users with different roles access to different
> > areas of the site such as:
> >
> > IsUserInRole("role1")
> >
> >
> > the user above in role1, role2 and role3 will notr gian
> > access because he/she needs to be in all 3 roles???
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:56 AM
> > Subject: RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?
> >
> >
> > > One thing to remember. If you do
> > >
> > > isUserInRole("a,b")
> > >
> > > It's an AND check. Ie, the user has to be in both. If you want the
> > > logic of
> > >
> > > IsUserInANYRole("a,b")
> > >
> > > You have to write a UDF for it. I wrote one for CFLIb.org.
> > >
> > > This also means you can't apply that logic to CFC methods using
> > > roles="a,b" in the cffunction tag. However, it's trivial to add the
> > > logic INSIDE the method.
> > >
> > >
> > ======================================================================
> > > ==
> > > ===
> > > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc
> > > (www.mindseye.com)
> > > Member of Team Macromedia
> > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia)
> > >
> > > Email :
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog
> > > Yahoo IM : morpheus
> > >
> > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:53 AM
> > > > To: CF-Talk
> > > > Subject: Re: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:41:30 -0500
> > > > "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >You set your roles to "admin, creative" ? Notice the
> > > > >space before
> > > > >creative. " creative" is not equal to "creative"
> > > >
> > > > You da man...and my forehead hurts from banging it on my desk.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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