Re: How would I do this project best in CakePHP?

The way to develop any good solid app is to start with the database,
create models, then contorllers, then views and est voila you have an
app.

At it's most simple, you should have the following tables in your
schema:
- users
- user_groups
- teachers

I would then use Auth with $this->Auth->authorize = 'controller'; and
create an isAuthorized() action in each controller to check
authorisation levels depending on a users group.

HTH, Paul

On Sep 27, 9:40 pm, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I'd like some advice/direction on this.  I'm fairly new to Cake, so this
> would be very much appreciated.  Basically, I have this assignment at work
> (oh yeah, CakePHP will be our framework as we're going along in our
> department, something I'm not 100% familiar), where you have a website that
> shows a list of names (last name and first name) and 3 code that mean
> something to the person searching for the person.  It's a list of teachers.
>
>    Now, there will be 3 roles, Users, Editors and Admins.  Users can view
> data (no sign on is necessary). Editors can do what a User can do and add
> new names to the list, delete them and update them (there is a requirement
> that you should be able to 'Enable' and 'Disable' teachers, essentially they
> are not shown when searched for).  The Admin can do what an Editor can do,
> add new Editors to the system and make the existing Editors also Admins
> (need to guard against an Admin from getting rid of his own privileges if
> he's the only one).
>
>    Now, I don't expect anyone to do this for me (what, you think I'm going
> to let someone else have the fun :-) ?)  But the current tutorial seems not
> really close to what I wanna do and since I'm not too familiar with CakePHP
> and how it works, I'd like some pointers on this or -- even better -- a
> tutorial that's similar to what I am trying to do.
>
>    I'm already sketching out how the database will look as a start.

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