Changing a users group does not change the ARO parent (effectively making it useless/impossible to change groups). I tried fixing this home-brew style, but since there’s no setParent in 1.2’s db_acl, it’s far harder than it should be.

That was reported back in 2007 and there was still no solution found in the net. It is also not an option for me to go through the above suggestion in fixing the problem so the the other solution is to find another one or create one. I chose the latter.

Why create a new one?

The other solutions that I found still needs some configuration in the controllers. Since I already have a ton of files, I don’t want to go through all of them to add a line or two. I need ACLs way of doing it all in the background. Also, I am already using Auth component and I want to keep it.

Why did I choose a text file over a database?

My intention is to make the application faster since load time is really getting slower. Since the application isn’t that big, I only have less than 200 lines for the permissions, so a database is just overkill. Even if I use a database, I might cache it anyway so it saves me extra query.

The component

So Permission Component was created. Below is the instruction on how to install it.

1. Download this component and copy to your components folder.
2. Create cake_dir/app/config/permissions.ini

The content for permissions.ini is as follows

[ControllerName]
actionName = group_id,group_id
 
[PluginName.ControllerName]
actionName = group_id,group_id

The ControllerName should be the controller name itself (in camel-case format).

The actionName is also the action name itself (in camel-case format).

The PluginName is the plugin name itself (in camel-case format).

The group_id is the one written in your Auth component. Your Auth component should have a group_id value because this is what our Permission component will look for. It could be a number or set of characters.

Example:

; Group ID 1 = Admin
; Group ID 2 = Member
[Accounts]
index = 
add = 1
edit = 1,2
delete = 1,2
 
[ShoppingCart.Orders]
index = 
report = 1

Assigning no group id in an actionName will simply ignore it.

Reminder

Use at your own risk. If you found a bug, please post them at the comment form.

What to do and what do we need to begin?

Let’s start baking!

sudo apt-get install cakephp1.2-scripts

1. Create a project. This creates all the files and directories under the /app directory
2. Configure database.php. We will do that using the command line
3. Start creating your Models. As the blog tutorial mentioned, models are the bread and butter of cakephp.
4. Create your controllers
5. Finally, create your views
6. Check your new app!

cake bake 

• In mylibrary/app/config/core.php, the Security.salt was modified
• mylibrary/app/config/database.php was created
• In mylibrary/app/webroot/index.php, CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH was changed to the absolute path of your cake core library, in my case "E:www\minilib" because this is what I entered in my Path settings (remember this tutorial?) So with this, you have a centralized cakephp core library.

cake bake model

cake bake controller

cake bake view

• Cakephp Book: Containable
• CakeBaker: New Core Behavior – Containable
• StudioCanaria: Cakephp Containable Behavior

1. Download the latest 1.2 release of cake. As of this writing, I tested it in cake_1.2.0.7296-rc2. Do the usual cake installation procedures.
2. Download this file and unzip. It must contain an “app” folder
3. Replace the /app from #1 with the /app from #2 but leave the config file of #1.
4. Use the /app/class.sql to setup your database

Exampe1: List of Classes

• Class title
• Course it belongs to
• Department it belongs to
• Teacher name

$this->MyClass->recursive = 1; 

$this->MyClass->recursive = 2; 

$this->paginate['MyClass']['fields'] = array( 'Course.title', 'MyClass.title' );

        $this->paginate['MyClass']['contain'] = array ( 
            'Teacher', 
            'Course' => array ( 
                'Department' => array ( 
                    'fields' => array ( 
                        'Department.title', 
                        'Department.id' 
                    ) 
                ) 
            ) 
        );

$this->Model0->contain( array(
 'Model1' => array ( 
 'fields' 	 => array( 'modelField1', 'modelField2' ),
 'conditions' => array( 'your condition here' ),
 'order' 	 => array( 'id' => 'asc' ),
 ),
 'Model2',
 'Model2'
 )
)

Example2: Class View

• Class title
• Course it belongs to
• Department it belongs to
• Teacher name
• Student comments that were approved and student name
• Student ratings that were approved and student name

        $this->MyClass->contain( array( 
            'Teacher', 
            'Rating'     => array( 
                'Student', 
                'order' => array( 'created' => 'desc' ),
                'conditions' => array( 'approved' => 1 )
            ), 
            'Comment'    => array( 
                'Student', 
                'order' => array( 'RAND()' ),
                'limit' => 3 ,
                'conditions' => array( 'approved' => 1 )
            ), 
            'Course'     => array( 
                'Department' => array( 
                    'fields' => array( 
                        'Department.title', 
                        'Department.id' 
                    ) 
                ) 
            ) 
            )
        );

<input type="radio" name="data[Model][field]" class="star" />

jquery.rating.js

// grouping:
  var n = this.name;

// grouping:
  var real_name = this.name;
  var n = real_name.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_\-]/g, '-'); // remove unwanted characters

$.rating.groups[n].valueElem = $('<input type="hidden" name="' + n + '" value=""' + (settings.readOnly ? ' disabled="disabled"' : '') + '>');

$.rating.groups[n].valueElem = $('<input type="hidden" name="' + real_name + '" value=""' + (settings.readOnly ? ' disabled="disabled"' : '') + '>');