Re: [Phplib-users] handle perm in auth

[Joe S. <jo...@be...>]

To keep the conversation going...

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:57:15PM -0400, Rob Hutton wrote:
> I think you are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.  That kind of
> bitwise math is too complex to reasonably maintain for the average db admin.
> IMHO it would be better to have a user_perms table like:
> 
> uid
> permname
> permlevel
> 

You should be able to generate the permissions array from a db if needed.  
The example in local.inc is just that, and example.

> Then it would be easy to see in the db what perms are set and still fits in
> with the current scheme.
> 

I don't want to be tied to a db for each perm check.

I agree that using binary arithmetic to generate individual permissions 
causes problems.

Give the permx.class a try.  Applied to the atomic permissions example in 
local.inc the permissions array would look like:

var $permissions = array(
   "user"       => true,
   "author"     => true,
   "editor"     => true,
   "supervisor" => true,
   "admin"      => true
);

The permx.class is in the patches snapshot and here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=617072&group_id=31885&atid=403613

It's been posted for everyone's feedback and ridicule.

Joe

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