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* What is SMACL?

A PHP library to administer users permissions to resources through an ACL (Access Control List).

* What makes SMACL different from other ACL implementation in PHP?

SMACL provides a framework to include the objects in your site directly in the ACL system. That means that you won't have to keep a reference copy of whatever object you wish to assign a permission inside the ACL, synchronized with the real object.... read more

SMACL is a PHP library that allows your web application to use a complex permission system. Permissions may be as fine-grained as you may need.

The most useful feature of SMACL is that you don’t need to keep the library synced with the objects in your web application. SMACL provides a framework which allows the library to directly interact with the objects in your web application, avoiding data redundancy (there aren’t copies of your object definition inside SMACL). For example, you already have a table of users, and you wish to use them as objects which can request permission. Extending the SMACL framework they become visible to the permission definition and checking algorithm, without having to notify the library for each object that was added, deleted or modified.... read more