Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Banning of users

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 23 Feb 2005, at 13:34, Matthew McNaney wrote:
>
> This is in place but you have to hand-hold with the permission system.
> For the example the blog entries have int column for authorization.
> 0 - Anyone can see this blog
> 1 - Registered users can see this blog
> 2 - Registered groups who have view permission for this item can see 
> it.
>

That would mostly work but I'm not that keen on this method as it puts 
the emphasis on the module developer to implement permissions in each 
module and in the case of the example isn't fine grained enough for 
some. For instance, you might want to make some blog entries readable 
for guests and some for registered users only. Also if you had a level 
of user above registered, how do you specify that they can read the 
special articles for them only, without also opening them up to normal 
registered users? eg. for paid content. I really think it should be 
item based permissions not module level.

Couldn't it be at a more core level like the level fatcat is at with a 
similar kind of interface so that you could pick a permission level 
from predefined groups? That was my reasoning behind the dropdown with 
a list of groups on any module's edit interface or even on say a block 
in layout mode.


Shaun
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