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CakePHP Auth Component - Users, Groups & Permissions

Published: on 20/5/08 | Comments (32)

UPDATE:

following on from the great response I have received to this article and numerous suggestions and requests left in the comments, I have now published an updated version of this article, which you can find here, the updated version contains all the code found here plus it has been refactored and improved to add features such as CakePHP 1.2.0.7125RC1 support, along with Permissions Caching and Controller Wide Permissions Wildcard support.

Ok, I've been using CakePHP for about three...

About Studio Canaria...

Published: on 15/5/08 | Comments (0)

Studio Canaria is the web site (and playground) of freelance web site designer and software developer Peter Butler.

First off, this site is intended as a resource, a place to document favourite web sites, solutions to common coding problems, a sounding board for ideas and a place to publish tips and information that may benefit both myself and the community who use this site.

Secondly this site is my own personal coding playground, a place to try out new techniques and show off what I can...

CakePHP 1.2 Stable

Published: on 15/5/08 | Comments (0)

As a professional software developer, I have worked with numerous programming languages and more recently development frameworks, but a little over 2 years ago I discovered the CakePHP framework and I have been a keen convert ever since.

CakePHP is a modern, well structured framework for developing PHP applications in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

Much of the repetitive code used over and over again in many web applications is already implemented and because it is so...