I'm using CakePHP to make an application. I want to see an overview of all permissions by aro's and aco's.
What is the best way to store all these permissions in a table?
(Without using a plugin)
Have you tried reading the chapter in the book about ACL?
All information you need is there.
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Thank you for helping on this!
I am designing an app with documents and posts sharing with Laravel.
I tried to do it myself since two weeks but I am not sure what the best is.
I've tried implementing many packages and used crud generators, but as a Laravel beginner it's difficult to find the good package and to mix them.
What I want is a system like google docs sharing behaviour but for posts.
You could write a post and set it as
private
shared with those with the secret link
shared with users names list (or ids in database)
shared with groups of users
So what is the best way to build that?
1) Using a package? Which one?
2) table_users | table_posts | table_permissions
one permission per user that can read / edit (permission level)
3) table_users | table_posts including permissions for each posts
owner_id
share_link
users_that_can_read
users_that_can_edit
If anyone can direct me to a good tutorial or give me a good start structure for this tables to be efficient and secure.
Maybe I do not see all the complexity of this so I will enjoy any suggestions
The problem for this is I want a more flexible rights management than wordpress one that provides user rights levels, the availability of data will be managed by simple subscribers for a lot of things(files, posts, maybe comments, groups and maybe more stuff).
You just need to create three tables roles,permissions and roles_permission.The roles of the user goes in the table roles table.the permission of a user are stored in the table permission.You can map the roles and permission of a particular user in the roles_permission table.However,for more flexible way to add role-based-permission use entrust package.In which,you can dynamically add/update/delete the roles and permissions in laravel.
I love CakePHP, but cannot wrap my head around the ACL/Auth subject. Everything else comes together nicely, but when it comes to this, I am lost. On top of it, I cannot finish my application if this is not solved. Therefore, I desperately need your help.
Things to note:
I have tried a few of the plugins available, but to no avail.
I have used tutorials online as well as the latest CakePHP book by Mariano, with no success.
I have tried on my own, also to no avail
Why is it so hard to get this accomplished?
These are my questions:
Is there any other way to handle Access Rights in a CakePHP application with Multiple Admin, users, etc?
For the possibility that ACL is the only/best way, how else could I approach this?
What could I possibly be doing wrong?
As you say that you have already tried a few of the available plugins, you have maybe already tried my own one: http://www.alaxos.net/blaxos/pages/view/plugin_acl It is mainly a graphical interface that allows to set the ACL permissions when they are used to grant/deny access to actions.
My point here is that in addition to the plugin itself, I made available a very simple sample application http://www.alaxos.net/blaxos/pages/view/demo_plugins that uses this plugin. It may help you if you install it and look at the code, as the application has some public parts, and some parts protected by the ACLComponent.
This is one of the pains in Cake, the complexity of ACL..
Is there any other way? Well, yes. Yes, in the sense that you can cook up your own access rights management, and simply go around the cake's ACL implementation. For example, you could have a role based ACL where roles would be pretty much a fixed list. This can be accomplished in many ways, one of which was demonstrated with DarkAuth.
Further more, don't try to fit your app into the cake's ACL scheme if it doesn't suit you. Bake your own, cake offers you the option of plugging in your own objects for auth/ACL stuff, so use it!
But do note that any feature-rich ACL system you want to create yourself might end up looking much like cake's ACL..so first decide exactly what you need, and then look for a way to do it.
In any case, good luck!
I just recently wrote the probably most simple Auth - I called it "Tiny":
http://www.dereuromark.de/2011/12/18/tinyauth-the-fastest-and-easiest-authorization-for-cake2/
It should be just about what you need.
It does need the roles to be present in the Session Auth, though and that you manage user roles yourself.
So you might have to add this to your login method if you want to use multi role Auth.
I am developing multi-sites with drupal.
I have to take care of 10 sites and they need single login
I supposed I need to create separate user database to support that
feature.
i.e 10 sites, 10 database and +1 user database.
Where should I look and modify? User Module? Which lines?
Normally database settings are in settings.php file .
I had export the database and make and working user-database already.
Please kindly try to explain in details thanks.
I don't know the full details of your situation but it sounds like you might benefit from one database with prefixed tables and a shared user table.
See
http://thedrupalblog.com/setting-multi-site-drupal-6-installation-shared-databases-and-single-sign and http://drupal.org/node/201673 (bit outdated but may still be helpful)
I have created a database system for a cms for a news website. I want to have only 4 roles in my db system : Admin, Author, Editor and Guest ( who only read the web pages). But there are some pre-defined roles in every db system like sys and db_owner and… and they are not removable but I want the only 4 roles I mentioned above. How can I aim this goal? thanks
ah, you cannot!
Also I do not think you will need to tweak the database system. Rather, architect a good solution for your application/frontend/website.
as far as i am aware, you can't modify those roles (besides adding logins to them). instead of working around them, you could try using them, it might make life a little bit easier.
I am very new to wordress. I have a appointment form. While submitting a form i need to save those information from the form to the database. I created a table of my own lets say wp_appointment and saved the information to this table. Now what i want to know is that is this a good way to do so or is there any solution to this. And i need to display those information in admin section and update. Is it possible? Please do suggest me if i can do or not.
Thanks in advance
Now what i want to know is that is
this a good way to do so or is there
any solution to this.
Yes, this is the ideal way to doing this. Besides, there is something to consider:
For ease of use and compatability, you can use wordpress's built-in database functions. Check this one: wpdb Class
And i need to display those
information in admin section and
update. Is it possible?
Sure. You can create a custom admin page and show/make editable them in there. As a start point check this link: Adding Administration Menus. You can apply the instructions told there to your function.php file to have custom pages without create an "external plugin".
To answer your questions: Yes, it's possible. And what you described is being done by current calendar plugins.
Here is one:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-calendar/
I would take a look at their code to see how they implement something similar to your idea.