developers communitySecuring your CakePHP application with phpGACL
Posted March 11th, 2007 by mariano.iglesias
This screencast will show you how to start a CakePHP application from scratch, bake a few controllers, implement a simple authentication mechanism, and finally protect some of your controllers using phpGACL for CakePHP. Even when there can be lots of improvements, it gives a clear idea on how easy it is to enable maximum flexibility when dealing with access control.
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Posted March 8th, 2007 by mariano.iglesias
CakePHP's built in Access Control List framework probably suits the needs of most applications out there. However, there are some times where we need a greater control on the elements an application should protect, and probably share the ACL being used to other applications. Let us present you phpGACL for CakePHP, a Cake plugin and component to integrate phpGACL with your applications.
Drake and Jake, integrating CakePHP with Drupal and Joomla
Posted February 22nd, 2007 by mariano.iglesias
Just a few days ago, we launched two open source projects that have proven to be long awaited by the CakePHP developers community: Drake and Jake. Drake is a module for Drupal that lets you execute CakePHP applications inside Drupal without having to modify existing source code. Jake, its sibling project, does the same for Joomla, another popular Content Management System, supporting both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5. Let's learn how you can use Jake and Drake for your CakePHP integration project.
