Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Re: Permissions: Could Tiki use phpGACL?

[Gustavo M. <gmu...@in...>]

Dennis Heltzel wrote:

> mose wrote:
>
>> - It's the next big work after adodb migration, I think.
>>
>> Unless we have enough people to integrate it in 1.8 ?
>> More and more threads converge on that topic ...
>> Would it be reasonable ? feasible ?
>
>
> The decision to move to adodb was helped tremendously by Flo and Ross 
> investigating the amount of effort and describing the costs and 
> benefits. If someone who understands the Tiki perm system could 
> investigate and report back on the amount of effort to implement, it 
> would be most helpful. I'd especially like to know if it would be like 
> Smarty and ADODB, where future releases of those programs can be 
> "dropped in" and tested without a major re-write of our stuff.

Could be implemented my suggestion of having a master "IsEnabled" 
function or something like that, that instead of checking one by one the 
permission that could be relevant hides them from the actual module? I 
put something about it in 
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=TikiContextAwareness_gmuslera
If details on how security and permissions are implemented are hidden 
from modules, migrating to another way to do it could have a not so big 
effect in the system.