Re: Re: AUTH & LiveUser

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:30:26 +0100 LIMBOURG Arnaud <arnaud.limbourg@cegetel.fr> wrote: > Markus has a medium permission management driver almost ready AFAIK. There > is also the need of writing a simple permission management backend (which > looks more suited to your needs), but i don't think any work has been done > on it so far. Hi Arnaud, (btw. sorry for not getting back to you earlier... very busy ATM) You´re right, there hasn´t been any work on a super-simple permission container yet, while a medium-complex version actually has been around for about 1.5 years (long before LiveUser was even planned to become a PEAR package one day :-)). However, the container is based on a stone-old version of the code and it would be better to rewrite it from scratch, as it wouldn´t work with the current LiveUser version anyway. Also, it works on an outdated version of the database model (see the diagram on the LiveUser site). Also, we´ve had some discussion whether it´s a good idea to let an alternative rights container that is being distributed as a standard container with the package have a different database model than the next complex variant. Letting both containers have the same database model, but letting the medium one operate with simpler (and also much faster) queries and less method parameters would allow newbies an easier start, and also offer an easy migration path once more complexity is needed. The model that Lukas has introduced is a lot more complex and allows tons of cool features like implied rights, right levels, special admin users and user/admin levels and so on, but it´s therefore also harder to understand, so that newbies to LiveUser face a very high learning curve, which I think is the main reason why the package hasn´t found a broad audience yet (okay the fact that it´s quite new might also have to do with that :-)) > I plan on using it, sometimes in the end of november, at that time i should > be able to devote some time to it. Cool, that´s exactly the time when I´ll be able to put some more work at it again :-) Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>