Clean your mind and try again. ACL is more powerful and not more complicate then the proposed solutions in this thread. Take the tutorial http://book.cakephp.org/view/641/Simple-Acl-controlled-Application
As written in the Book "Be brave and stick with it, even if the going gets rough. Once you get the hang of it, it's an extremely powerful tool to have on hand when developing your application." On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:31 AM, paws_galuten <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrestled with ACL for a while, and finally decided that might be too > much for what I'm doing. I only really need a few types of users and > in that case it is simple enough just to have a field in the users > table that specifies the type (or is a foreign key to the groups > table, for example). > > This way, I can just use $this->Auth->user() to find out what type of > user is logged in, and then have different things happen in the view. > > Here's a question... Now that I've simplified things and am not using > ACL, I still need to restrict access to the special actions. Do I need > to manually check the user in each action and redirect if they are not > supposed to acces it? > > It seems like there are two things. 1, changing the view and making > certain actions visible to special user types, and 2, actually > restricting other users form those actions in case they manually type > them into the url. > > I'm just trying to do the simplest thing while sticking with cake > conventions. > Thanks for your thoughts, > Jason > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others > with their CakePHP related questions. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<cake-php%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > -- Regards, Zaky Katalan-Ezra QA Administrator www.IGeneriX.com Sites.IGeneriX.com 054-7762312 Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
