I am using the AuthSome component (Auth alternative) from Debuggable, together with this: http://josediazgonzalez.com/2010/01/11/you-want-access-well-you-no-can-has-cakephp-access-component/
Works a treat. :) On Apr 24, 12:31 am, paws_galuten <jason.galu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrestled with ACL for a while, and finally decided that might be too > much for what I'm doing. I only really need a few types of users and > in that case it is simple enough just to have a field in the users > table that specifies the type (or is a foreign key to the groups > table, for example). > > This way, I can just use $this->Auth->user() to find out what type of > user is logged in, and then have different things happen in the view. > > Here's a question... Now that I've simplified things and am not using > ACL, I still need to restrict access to the special actions. Do I need > to manually check the user in each action and redirect if they are not > supposed to acces it? > > It seems like there are two things. 1, changing the view and making > certain actions visible to special user types, and 2, actually > restricting other users form those actions in case they manually type > them into the url. > > I'm just trying to do the simplest thing while sticking with cake > conventions. > Thanks for your thoughts, > Jason > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others with > their CakePHP related questions. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
