Re: Is it possible to access AuthComponent from a Helper ?

2011-12-02 Thread Sam Sherlock
I found an acl tutorial that has an access helper and comp. The access helper checks acl permissions before outputing links. All works fairly well, though I do have reservations about the way it crosses the view and controller streams This is the link http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to

Re: Is it possible to access AuthComponent from a Helper ?

2011-12-02 Thread euromark
i think it is possible but would create quite some overhead... and yes, it would probably break MVC On 2 Dez., 10:16, Dan wrote: > I would like to write a Helper which would check if a given link is > authorized for the current user. > > I'm using CakePHP 2.0. I'm using the AuthComponent with con

Is it possible to access AuthComponent from a Helper ?

2011-12-02 Thread Dan
I would like to write a Helper which would check if a given link is authorized for the current user. I'm using CakePHP 2.0. I'm using the AuthComponent with controller authorization. So my authorization logic goes into isAuthorized callbacks. The idea would be to have a helper used in this mann