Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Integrated User/Group & Permissions

[Todd O. <to...@da...>]

I too considered using ACS for community building,especially after reading
Phil Greenspun's book available at http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/
which I recommend to Everyone!  My dead tree version has some beautiful
photographs.

Anyway, http://www.openacs.org has the TCL, Aolserver, Postgresql version,
which is open source.  The OpenACS group worked hard moving the Oracle
stored procedures from ACS to the TCL side of OpenACS.

Having used Zope for a while (I won't digress about how I think Python is
the best language around), I realized that some of the things I wanted to
accomplish wouldn't scale well in Zope.  However, one of Zope's strong suits
is it's access control lists (ACLs).  Since Zope works like a tree, an ACL
object on a branch controls access for all object nodes below it.

Since my goal for PHP is to have multiple sites within the same installation
(and same database tables), then an access control list becomes increasingly
more important.  I would like to see your work on this port Clayton to give
me (us) some ideas about how we could implement this functionality in phpWS.
ACS's strength is definitely its data model, which will benefit anyone who
studies it.

--Todd