CakePHP 1.3 "Simple Acl controlled Application"

This app tries to provide a working example of the Simple Acl controlled Application tutorial that is included in the CakePHP Manual (The Cookbook). All steps listed in the tutorial are available as different commits (more or less).

• 11.2.1 Preparing our Application - 48ae7099a730f25cdb490c7275313579f393f833
• 11.2.2 Preparing to Add Auth - aa6a563444778e6bb9c95589c3aa795fdea80f49
• 11.2.3 Initialize the Db Acl tables - 6d2ca447fd4636069a41d5373d1af2fe10025fd8
• 11.2.4 Acts As a Requester - f1bb54a4a122005f34db32c4c511a41edd2c6513
• 11.2.5 Creating ACOs (Access Control Objects) - a66f2829a52d80f929df61ddad81523472a151d7
• 11.2.6 An Automated tool for creating ACOs - da5f9a2bc3e5464ec0e4be891fe39cec1235d46c
• 11.2.7 Setting up permissions - d02b61277256eeaef15f2665a87ac10f2115d5a4
• 11.2.8 Logging in - 393cb844726ae1abfc8064f195746e478abae962
• 11.2.9 Logout - aa952e20f1f137062aed1c548253394cd9f7bc4e

Getting started

In order to use this example you should clone the repository and update/init the CakePHP submodule:

git clone git://github.com/Maff-/CakeAclDemo.git CakeAclDemo
cd CakeAclDemo
git submodule update --init

Next you should create a database on your server and import the contents of app/config/schema/app_schema_and_data.sql. Place a database config in app/config/database.php

Visit http://localhost/CakeAclDemo

"Usage"

You can visit one of the public pages

• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/
• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/posts/ (index, view)
• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/widgets/ (index, view)

Or a restricted page, and you should be redirected to the login form /users/login/

• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/posts/ (add, edit, delete)
• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/widgets/ (add, edit, delete)
• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/users/ (index, view, add, edit, delete)
• http://localhost/CakeAclDemo/groups/ (index, view, add, edit, delete)

Log in with one of the user accounts (username / password):

• administrator / test
• manager / test
• user / test

Notes

This demo should not be used for a real world application. If you do base your work on the demo, change the Security.salt and Security.cipherSeed in the app/config/core.php file! This renders the users accounts useless (becase the passwords are hashed using the original salt), so you would need to recreate them.

There may be better ways for a Auth/Acl setup in CakePHP, this is merely a copy of the Cookbook tutorial.