Hi Lee, Well sfGuard is really your stock-standard ACL system on a very basic level.
What are Permissions, they effectively get added as credentials when the login action is run. Groups (sometimes called "roles").... well they a re a collection of permissions. So for example: The group "Bloggers" might contain the the permissions: edit_post, create_post, delete_post. So, this allows an ACL system to convenient add a number of permissions based on a group. It's a really interesting area to have a play around with and taking a look at how the sfGuard works on a code level will give a you a good start at getting all the concepts together. Hope this helps. - Piers On 02/01/2008, at 9:12 PM, Lee Bolding wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm victim of one of those non-standard, quick-fixes that became > dogma that > I mentioned the other day. I'm trying to remove all of the custom > authorization/authentication and ACL stuff from an application and > replace > it with SfGuard, so that I have a more easily maintainable > application, and > so that I can use Symfony's security.yml to apply security settings > in a > much more flexible manner. > > Anyway, taking a look at sfGuard, I see that it has both groups and > permissions (tables), but there is nothing in the Wiki that mentions > how > these work, or what the purpose of them is - I would expect > permissions to > map directly to credentials, but there doesn't appear to be any > relationship > at all (at least, not documented) - so what *IS* the use of groups and > permissions in sfGuard? > > Is there some more thorough documentation somewhere? And do I still > need to > declare credentials programmatically? That seems a little clunky :-/ > > Thanks in advance... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
