Re: ACL for groups

I think you misinterpreted my confusion, actually. I was referring to
the groups table, not aros. I see now that (i think) i don't need a
parent_id in groups and that i should deal with the nesting entirely
in aros.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM, brian <bally.zijn@gmail.com> wrote:
> It "clearly states" that, does it? Would you mind pointing out that
> line? I've just read that section for probably the 5th time and I
> don't see it. I'm more than willing to admit that I'm still missing
> it, though, as this entire subject has been rather confusing.
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Smelly Eddie <OlliTech@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes if you read the ACL section of the manual it clearly states to use
>> null for the top level group.
>>
>> It is advisable in my opinion to make one group 'entire_site' and give
>> yourself unfettered access without having to declare things
>> individually. THis group would have a parent id of nul.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 27, 12:44 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the link but it doesn't explain what I'm looking for, which
>>> is the DB table schema. I'm familiar with MPTT (and have used it
>>> before) but Cake's parent_id has me confused.
>>>
>>> But I thought to look at db_acl.sql, which shows parent_id DEFAULT
>>> NULL so I'll go with that.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:27 AM, djiize <seb.jou...@free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> > For nested groups, you should read this post:
>>> >http://edwardawebb.com/programming/php-programming/cakephp/nested-tre...
>>>
>>> > In ACL, I (personnaly) think it's a good idea to have a ROOT group,
>>> > even if you don't use it now, maybe later ;)
>>>
>>> > If you don't want one, a NULL value should suffice.
>>>
>>> > On 27 mar, 05:16, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> I need to have nested groups, so the table has a parent_id column.
>>> >> But, should top-level groups have a NULL parent_id? Or would there
>>> >> have to be a ROOT group, so to speak? I'm having a real hard time
>>> >> sorting all this out.
>> >>
>>
>

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