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

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

Clayton Collie wrote the following on Saturday:

>Ars Digita Community System
>ACS in its later versions began to implement a more layered user (hence
>permissions) structure, but based on my reading of the code, it really
would
>take a well tuned back end to deal with the type of queries they needed to
>support it. definitely not for your garden variety ISP. thats one of the
>reasons i stopped tracking it at version 3.xxx. The Zope architecture is
>indeed nice, but i think they have custom serialization to handle their
data
>model.

The ACS permission scheme looks very nice and very flexible.  We would
probably need to streamline the code some for performance reasons, but it
definately gives us a level of granularity seen few other places.

How does everyone else feel about this?

--Todd