Category Archives: ACL

CakePHP Console ACL Help File

March 22, 2009 – 9:30 am

Every now and then I want to view my help files in pretty, formatted HTML instead of plain text in a text editor or terminal window. Right now I’m working on setting up some Access Control Lists (ACL) in the CakePHP Console. ACL is a powerful, yet sometimes hard-to-grasp concept. I always figure that if [...]

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And We’re Back!

September 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm

I have been so incredibly busy the last few months that aside for 140 character Twitter updates, I haven’t been able to keep this blog updated with my exploits.
If you are still paying attention, I was complaining about ACL. After several attempts, I gave up using the built-in ACL component in CakePHP and just decided [...]

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Wow. ACL is Hard

June 20, 2008 – 12:55 pm

That is Access Control Lists. I’ve been developing with CakePHP this spring and summer and it was all going very well until I actually needed to control access to the application. It’s not even that CakePHP falls short here. There are apparently tons of built-in tools for managing access. They’re just poorly documented and the [...]

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