Interesting, I was about to post the same questions, can anyone help us out??
3) ACL can be used to manage usergroups and actions and permissions related to that, once you've read the manual on ACL you'll get the idea. I think there are a few tutorials on combining the Auth component and ACL as well, try google. here's a link to the manual about ACL: http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/acl thanks for asking the right questions ;) On Feb 4, 12:43 pm, Tim W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks mostly to the tutorial linked below I have basic auth working > in my project. I can create a user in the database (that took a while > to figure out), have users view public content without logging in, and > make users log in before they go to a page that's for registered only. > So far I haven't figured out quite how it works, but it seems to. What > i'm trying to do is show the "edit" link on a webpage only to > administrators. > > I have a few questions, the first being by far the most important: > 1) How do I get the username and group (or just the user object) of > the user currently logged in? I've looked at everything in my debugger > and can't spot the information anywhere. > 2) Is there an easy way to get the user role or group from the view? > ie I only want to show the "go to administration" link if the user's > an admin. > 3) How does ACL relate to what i've done? > > Once I get a basic auth system up and running I hope to put together a > sample project so people can download it, throw it into their project, > and have it work complete with login, registration page, user models, > etc. > > The most useful tutorial i've > found:http://www.webdevelopment2.com/cakephp-auth-component-tutorial-1/ > adnhttp://www.webdevelopment2.com/cakephp-auth-component-tutorial-2/ > > Other i've looked at are > belowhttp://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/09/11/a-hopefully-useful...http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/11/20/follow-up-to-a-hop...http://lemoncake.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/using-aclbehavior-in-cakeph...http://lemoncake.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/using-authcomponent-and-acl... > > Thanks > > Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
