[Phpwebsite-developers] Integrated User/Group & Permissions

[clayton c. <cc...@ca...>]

As a part of my search for a portal engine, i came across ACS, which had
everything i was looking for, except for the fact that its written in TCL,
needs AOLServer, and insists on Oracle (though PGSql and Interbase variants
exist). In any case i began a port of ACS to PHP (more on that later),
learning many things in the process.

ACS has a pretty good SQL based User/Group and permissions model which could
work in the context of phpWS. i have a good start on porting parts of it
over, so if anyone is interested, give me a shout and i can email something
you can look at. Note, however that it is incomplete, and absolutely
positively will _not_ compile, and has a few more features than we need to
deal with at the moment (they have a concept of "group type", which new
groups "inherit" attributes from).

   However, it can definitely be massaged to form a part of the PWS
architecture. In particular, the permissions system would only need minor
work to get working once the user stuff is finished.

i have more ideas i'll share later  ...