You can also create sfGuardGroup for each type of user you have and set the sfGuardUserGroup to the type of user your are creating.
2009/11/26 halfer <[email protected]> > > I have to build an application with quite a few different user types - > > admins, members, affiliates, sales people, and all of these types will > > use different applications within the project. Now, of course I'd like > > to use sfGuard for this, but I'm struggling with how to administer > > these users separately. > > The way we do this in our application - which carries about ten > different user types - is to stick with sfGuardUser as it is, and have > a profile table. The profile table carries a type column which > resolves via a lookup table to a type name (e.g. client, publisher, > admin, etc.). When the user logs in, some custom code takes this value > and adds a corresponding credential to the current user object > (user_type_client, user_type_publisher, user_type_admin, etc.). This > can then be used in security.yml files to specify permissions based on > user type. > > Also, our profile table connects via an FK to a "properties" table, > which contains name/value pairs. Typically in our system users have > three or four of these, and differing user types rarely share the same > property names. At logon, we read the name/value pairs into an > associative array and store this as a persistent user attribute. The > user object then offers lookup methods to read a named property's > value. Should a user's property collection change in the db, they have > to log off and log back on again, but this is not a big problem in our > system. > > We also join user profiles to a company table, which in turn also has > its own property table. In this way we can apply a set of property > name/pairs to a group of users as well as to users individually. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<symfony-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > > > -- Benjamin Grandfond [email protected] +33684387712 http://www.theodo.fr http://www.allomatch.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
