Thanks for the suggestion Gustavo, but this seems like way too much
complication for what seems like a pretty simple job; involving DNS
into this potentially adds another whole area for complications and
issues.

can anyone shed some light?

cheers

On Aug 9, 2:36 pm, Gustavo Adrian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe adding the username to a subdomain, like "username.myDomain.com" and
> create a new routing class that takes that username into account to filter
> items by user?
>
> On the "More with Symfony" book is a great example of this approach:
>
> http://www.symfony-project.org/more-with-symfony/1_4/en/02-Advanced-R...
>
> Hope that helps
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:35 AM, bretth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I want to give my users the ability to easily add edit and delete
> > "images" which are associated with their account. In the backend I
> > just have a standard admin generator module for this that allows
> > editing all the images on the site, but I want to give the users a
> > front end version for their own use, where they can only edit their
> > own images.
>
> > I have created the front end admin module; currently all images on the
> > site get shown, but I want to limit the images that get displayed to
> > just that user (ie so they dont see anything but their own images)
>
> > I also need to ensure that they can't trick the website by playing
> > with the xhtml, URL or http requests to modify images that don't
> > belong to them.
>
> > I know that I can modify the buildQuery() method in the imageActions
> > class; but that doesn't seem very elegant. I also see the
> > admin.build_query event which i know I could listen to; but again; not
> > ideal (in my opinion)
>
> > I would prefer to create a filter that ensures that they are only ever
> > shown images that match their id (the site is secured with
> > sfDoctrineGuardPlugin).
>
> > But I have no idea how to approach this; I've never worked with
> > filters before and the documentation that I've read seems more about
> > just modifying the display of filters.
>
> > Do I create a new filter object and then tell the generator.yml to use
> > that filter instead of the default? Can you point me to any docs on
> > this?
>
> > Also, the other question I have:
>
> > is how are users prevented from editing other peoples images; ie
> > what's stopping someone from seeing
>
> > /image/7/edit
>
> > which belongs to their account, and then guessing
>
> > /image/9/edit
>
> > which belongs to someone else. How can I easily ensure that they're
> > not adding, updating or deleting images that don't belong to them?
>
> > Thanks a lot :)
>
> > Brett
>
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