Security in model, will it break MVC?

2007-10-21 Thread laeffe
I've been thinking about wheter or not it's a good idea to place acl check things in the model or not. My idea is to maybe place some sort of generic access check in appModel to interupt the request if the user (of requester) dont have access. But i dont know if that will break the MVC pattern or

Re: Security in model, will it break MVC?

2007-10-21 Thread Gwoo
this is integrated into the AuthComponent already. function beforeFilter() { $this-Auth-authorize = array('model' = 'User'); } then put this in the User model for instance. function isAuthorized($user, $controller, $action) { //do some checks return false; } if you want to do it