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

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

Todd,
   i'll send it out tomorrow as im rushed for the rest of the day.

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

thats what i had to do to try and make things more DB independent.


> I won't digress about how I think Python is
> the best language around)
that my next "P" language to tackle, after Perl (not pretty, but good for
"heavy lifting") and PHP. everything ive read suggests that its a thing of
beauty.

> 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.
Multi-sites in the same DB shouldnt be a problem at all. Permissions are
based on object Ids (primary keys), so it doesnt matter which site they
belong to. The permission system is a general framework you use to
grant/revoke/check access to any object in the system. it can be tailored to
fit many scenarios.  (its a little clearer if you look at the object model
and the source code)

>ACS's strength is definitely its data model, which will benefit anyone who
> studies it.

Absolutely !