Re: Auth and user permission levels

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:18:09 -0800 (PST) olinux <olnx@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'd like to use Auth for allowing access to different > sections website (not porn) such as: > > Paid Members only > Free Registration only > Free access (no auth required) > > and then Admin levels for all of these in my content > manager app. Structure something like this [...] Did you have a look at LiveUser? It might make your task a little easier, as all the permission mechanisms are already there - and if it should not meet your exact needs, you can still write your own permission component. But in that case you´d still have the advantage of a standard API, so if you want to switch to another permission scheme, you won´t have to touch much of your application´s code. To be honest, there currently three catches with LiveUser: a) The only packaged version is stone-old, the current code can only be retrieved via CVS (ATM.) b) At the current stage of development, there´s still a possibility of minor API changes c) It´s not very well documented. I don´t know when a) or c) will be addressed, but I´m working on fixing catch b). And as long as c) is still an issue, you can ask me anything you want and I´ll try to answer as quickly as possible. Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>