So I have finally broken down in my stubborn ways and agreed to accept Cake's Acl component. After walking through the manual I believe it will make it into all my future sites.
The trouble I am having is to add it to one of my old sites. I am not looking for technical advice so much as conceptual. The example in the Manual uses some or JRR Tolkeins characters to explain, and that's very well. It applies to real world examples of people belonging to groups and inheriting properties form those groups. ** What if people belong to multiple groups? If your familiar with the Manual's example, how would you make Gandalf a Warrior, A hobbit, and A visitor, etc. -------------- So I guess I need some background on how the Acl component actual does the queries and logic. Please take the following example to understand my question. ------------ A large park has many families enjoying picnics. Each family has a few members with exclusive access to their picnic baskets. - No problem My Family |- Myself |- My Brother L My Sister Jones Family |- Timmy |- Tommy L Tina (*My Fiancé) But my fiancé's family is also in the park, and I think she should have access to my family's picnic basket, and she would like to grant me access to her family's. My Family |- Myself |- My Brother |- My Sister L Tina Jones Jones Family |- Timmy |- Tommy |- Tina (*My Fiancé) L Myself This could be expanded to the point that one person 'belongs' to many families, and should get the inherent permissions of all those families. ----------- So now the dilemma.. I am sure it is the wrong way to go to add duplicate ACO's like above. But instead I will have to add explicit Aco_aro records for myself and tina. Alternately would it be possible to make the Families ACOs. So I can just say that I have access to Tina's family, and she has access to mine. From that My Family has access to our picnic basket, and by inheritance so does Tina. Can something be an ACO and ARO? Or am I just missing something really obvious. I am just wanting to keep things simple as possible. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
