A3M - Account Authentication & Authorization Module

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Hello

I just started helping out with the A3M project using Jakub's repo as my starting point (donjakobo/A3M). Right now I have a Pull Request pending that will add an Admin Panel (managing Users, Roles, and Permissions), library for checking if a user has a specific permission, database defaults for system roles/permissions, and other updates to fill out the Authorization piece of A3M.

The basics of how to use the Roles/Permissions has been added to the updated README.md file on my repo: drofnas/A3M

Roles are setup as a simple way to group a set of permissions together, so after you apply a role to a user you will be able to check if they have the needed permissions for a feature in your Controller:

Code:

$this->load->library('account/authorization');
if ( $this->authorization->is_permitted('post_articles'))
{
  // let them use this feature
}

You can see an example of this in one of the Admin Panel Controllers:

Line 17: Loading the Library
Line 37: Checking if the user has permission


WARNING: This is very much a Beta Admin Panel. If you come across any bugs we would love to hear about it on GitHub.

Thanks,
Drofnas