Yep, I get the wild card thing; just figured its another whole layer
of stuff that I'd prefer not to include.

But what I don't get; is that at some point doing it that way; you
still have to filter out the listing of records to just the ones that
have image.user_id = ?. In your idea, where would that be done?

thanks for the help!

On Aug 9, 10:39 pm, Gustavo Adrian <[email protected]>
wrote:
> It depends on the options of your hosting I guess. If you have a panel like
> cPanel (even with a shared hosting), you can set a new subdomain with a
> wildcard "*" to point directly to your root public folder, and that's it. If
> it's still a problem, you could directly create a url pattern adding the
> username to it (www.myDomain.com/username/mySection) and make it look for
> items just for that user.
>
> Any of those ideas would be my choice. Anything else I think it would be not
> as elegant as I wish.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:53 AM, bretth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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