Dave Watts wrote: > But in any case, since you said earlier that your permissions are binary > values (you represent them with checkboxes), why not represent them using
Actually, in my case, they are integers... the checkboxes are on-off values for specific parts of the application. If something isn't checked, they don't have access to it - because it doesn't appear in the permission list. ie "1,3,4,5,7,9" where the checkboxes for modules 2, 6, and 8 were not checked. So in my case of course, not every user has every permission flag So if I'm looking for whether or not a user has access to module 5 (let's say that's the FAQ editor)... then I just do <cfif listFind(session.permissions,5) gt 0> Now, I could probably use a bit valuation for something like this too but I've never tried, and although the storage would be even smaller (I could store 8 permissions in a single byte).... the code would be more complicated I think. One disadvantage of doing it this way is that I can't just look in the database, eyeball the field content, and see that a user has permissions to module 5. I can't do "on the fly" binary conversions in my head ;) I have actually considered doing in this way in the past, I've just never gotten around to trying to figure it out. And to me, it's just not worth the trouble to make such modifications to an application that works fine the way it is. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:235710 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
