Hello, I'm trying to work out a good system to get at ACL data in my views, and while the net & list archives have a handful of tips and partial solutions, I haven't found anything conclusively helpful.
The most promising approaches I've seen add code to the login function to compile a list of the user's permissions to store in a session var, and then incorporate a helper to check against this when needed on the front end. However, that lookup code all uses lots of digging into the actual acl->aco->etc. hierarchy, or deals directly with the tree behavior, and feels overwrought in compared to the ease of $this->Acl->check( $aro, $aco, $action = '*') in a controller action. So, my questions: a) What's the overhead of the ACL Component's check() method? ie: would calling it in a controller action for a page a few times mean lots of db thrash, or is there some smart caching involved? b) Does anyone have a working solution they're pleased with? A clean method to stash a users permissions would be super-useful! thanks! -e -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. 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
