2009/11/22 Anton Aylward <[email protected]>: > Asfand Yar Qazi said the following on 11/22/2009 10:10 AM: >> 2009/11/21 Anton Aylward <[email protected]>:
> I'm a strong believer in simplification, and one of the axioms is "Each > Thing Does One Thing and Only One Thing". Overloading a single engine > to do all you want sounds like a recipe for disaster. Well, I'm not really overloading a single engine. The radiant engine will only manage blogs and articles. That is kind of what it is designed for, I'd assume - dealing with articles and presenting them in some format accessible by a menu hierarchy. The separate forum software (whatever it is) will manage the forums. If the client wants something else added in the future, like a video presenting application, obviously that would be its own app. However I see what you're getting at. > [1] See Rick Smiths' book "Authentication" > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201615991?ie=UTF8&tag=emergentprope-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0201615991 > P122: "Indirect Authentication dresses the scalability problem > posed by sites with a single user population but multiple points of > service. Even a site with just two servers will want to avoid the > headache of maintaining consistency between two separate > authentication databases." That seems like a good way to implement user access control across several services, thanks. I shall see if I can have it done between the forum and radiant app in an extensible manner (hopefully without the use of something like LDAP, which I loathe too, even though I am proficient in it). Regards, Asfand Yar Qazi _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
