Khaos :: KhACL

[eluser]adamp1[/eluser]
1. I see the name field is unique, so no way of entering a user with multiple parents within the aro tree? In the (phpgacl) PDF provided in first few posts of this thread it shows han is within crew and within engineers. This is kind of confusing me, I cant see how I can add an aro named han and add him under 2 other aro’s (crew and engine). Unless I call them Han1 and Han2 or crew_han and engineer_han?

With the implementation used in KhACL there is no way to have ARO's members of multiple groups.

2. Linking to existing user table, Could I get rid of the link field, and change the name field to user_id? I don’t really want to duplicate a user’s name within the database.

If I were you don't get rid of those fields unless you want to edit the entire library code. There reason its all in its own table is so it can easily be moved around and also applied to many situations.

3. Does the amount of ARO’s really make much of a difference in performance?

If your worried about performance try the library along with the cache library, but to answer your question, Say you have 2 ARO's and 5 ACO's, it would have to loop 10 times, adding another ARO means 15 loops. So the more ACO's/ARO's you have the slower it will get.