Re: some ACL stuff

2006-04-12 Thread nate
Hey Ryan, It seems like your system is simple enough that an ACL would not even be required. Where it *would* come in handy is if you created a situation where users could join groups, and create/edit blog posts collectively. But if you only have a single direct relationship between posts and

Re: some ACL stuff

2006-04-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
very true, and in all reality i'm just doing a 'beta' version of my web app initially, and i'll probably use a simpler authentication schema, but as the Cake ACL documentation isn't extremely extensive (definitely useful, and totally digestible) I was wondering what would be the best

Re: some ACL stuff

2006-04-12 Thread nate
The general rule of thumb about ACO's are that you want to create one for each object that you want to control access to, and arrange them hierarchically such that there are as few links between the ARO and ACO trees as necessary. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: some ACL stuff

2006-04-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would it be bad form to mix ACL with a specific access check - to go back to the blog example, which I know is a bit too simple to be appropriate, but - would it be wrong to set say all children of the 'members' ARO group had 'read' access to the blogs ACO group, adn then check if the logged in

Re: some ACL stuff

2006-04-12 Thread Darian Anthony Patrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In an application not at all like a blog, I do both, as (to keep with your blog example) not all of my user's are allowed to modify their own blog posts, but I still need to determine whether a blog post belongs to the current user in order to