AclController 0.1.0 - phpGACL enabled Controllers

[eluser]Frank Berger[/eluser]
Hi Folks,

I was working on this for the past few days, and I thought i am at a state where I can publish something and gather input:

Package: AclController
Version: 0.1.0
Author: Frank Berger <[email protected]>
Url: http://www.taka-its.com/aclcontroller.0.1.0.zip


Welcome to AclController

to work with this Library, please make sure to read the INSTALL file in this directory and the documentation of gacl

in order to enable your Controllers to grant or deny access based on an ACL, or to create your own acl's you have to start here:

Lets assume you have Controller like this:

Code:

class Blog extends Controller {
    function Blog () {
        parent::Controller();    
    }
    
    function Index () {
        // code for index    
    }
    
    function Detail () {
        // code for detail    
    }
    
    function Edit () {
        //code for edit    
    }
    
    function Save () {
        // code for save
    }
}

and you would like to restrict access to the Edit and the Save method via ACL's so only authenticated users can use those
methods, while Index and Detail are accessible for everybody.

To enable the Controller with ACL simply change the class-declaration to

Code:

class Blog extends AclController {

thats all.

From now on, all Methods have ACL's attached to it which can be managed for now through the phpgacl/admin interface.

Please be sure to read the README file for lots more information, there are lots of config options already, including an optional authentication framework, automatic ARO and ACO creation, default ACL's , custom ACO rules and more.

This implementation is free of any user management (besides a very basic one to demonstrate how it works, think .htpasswd). I am working in parallel on a Usermanagement implementation which will obsolete the need for phpGACL's own admin-tool, and incorporates Users, Groups and ACL's

This library is designed to do the ACO setup automatically, and it will add ARO default settings to work with.

Please check it out if you're looking for something like this (i know quite a few are) and any feedback is welcome.

phpGACL Version 3.3.7 is packaged in the zip-file

Cheers
Frank

[eluser]vendiddy[/eluser]
Great idea! I'm gonna try to use this in my project.

[eluser]Frank Berger[/eluser]
wait for monday, i planned another release on the weekend. been working on it more, including documentation.

[eluser]Johan André[/eluser]
Truly awesome!

[eluser]phpserver[/eluser]
Thanks a lot Frank.I was writing my own acl class but it wasnt this good.Macro.

[eluser]NikhilSukul[/eluser]
Hi,
After doing the installation . I just activated the controller by adding ACLController and i am getting this error, see below. Am i missed something? can you help me out

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined property: Blog::$db

Filename: libraries/Gacl.php

Line Number: 146
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Trying to get property of non-object

Filename: libraries/Gacl.php

Line Number: 146
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysql_insert_id() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given

Filename: drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Line Number: 218
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysql_insert_id() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given

Filename: drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Line Number: 218
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysql_insert_id() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given

Filename: drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Line Number: 218
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysql_insert_id() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given

Filename: drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Line Number: 218
A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: mysql_insert_id() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given

Filename: drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php

Line Number: 218
An Error Was Encountered

access on cntrl_blog not allowed for authuser

[eluser]Frank Berger[/eluser]
Hi

what i can see is that the first error is like this:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined property: Blog::$db

this indicates that the db connection from the Main-controller, which the ADODB layer gacl reuses, is missing (this is done to avoid 2 connections).

Time permitting i want to post an update soon. I developed this further, including:
- port of the gacl lib to native CI DB calls
- an ACL Datamapper extention ( datamapper from stensi.com)
- more features for handling the user and authentication
- lots of bugfixes.

Thanks for the interest, this helps me pushing forward

Frank

[eluser]phpserver[/eluser]
Okay,after editing the database file in he .ini file,is there another database setting that is supposed to be taken care of?

[eluser]phpserver[/eluser]
Hey,i tried protecting welcome controller that is where i encountered the error to be exact.However i would like to know how gacl.php and aclcontroller.php can be edited as you have mentioned in the INSTALL file

[eluser]Frank Berger[/eluser]
the ini is only necessary if you want to use the admin-tool from phpgacl (which is independent of any codeigniter instance)

there are 4 relevant files in config:
database (obviously) needs to be configured
aclcontroller.php - here you set how authentication works
gacl.php - mirror your database settings here to be sure
autoload - load database, gacl. aclcontroller is loaded via the MY_controller.php file (hen-egg problem)

What errormessage do you get?

Frank