[development] phpgacl

[Tao Starbow]

You might check out the acl.module

cheers,
-tao

Roman Chyla wrote:
> Ken,
> Thank you for the reply. The phpgacl was the best I was able to find.
> If anyone knows about any library that does the similar thing, please
> let me know. I know Joomla! is using phpgacl and it was ported to
> python recently too (spiff.debain.org) -- it may look stall, but the
> documentation is very complete and it does provide good services.
>
> I am behind in understanding Drupal6 but I think I know quite well D5
> and it's access control. And I found it not flexible enough, so if
> things hasn't changed for D6 I would have troubles setting fine
> grained access permission for individuals and/or groups on a
> item-level and/or collection basis.
> Besides in this project, data and documents are stored in an external
> system and Drupal should be used to provide access control interface
> and act as an arbiter for every fulltext request. So there isn't any
> notion of nodes here. The external system is a digital library, made
> of many journals, each journal has its own subscribers and the
> editorial board should manage its own subscribers -- that's why I
> needed groups. I did not install OG yet, but comparing it with
> CivicCRM, it seems to me there cannot be subgroups inside of the OG
> groups. We need to isolate journals but still need to have groups
> inside their space (inside their groups). CivicCRM looks good though.
>
> Please let me know if there is anything I didn't see. Any experience
> to share? Thanks
>
> Best,
>
>   roman
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Roman-
>>
>> The phpgacl project appears to be stagnant.  No new releases since 2006.
>> SVN untouched for the past 20 months.
>>
>> Does anyone still support the project?
>>
>> The only activity on the mailing list these days seems to be spam.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=phpgacl-devel
>>
>> Not sure why anyone would invest time into such an integration.
>>
>> As for Drupal, start with Organic Groups, the mother of all access control
>> modules.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Rickard
>> agentrickard at gmail.com
>> http://ken.therickards.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Roman Chyla <roman.chyla at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am looking into the phpgacl and after searching mailing lists, and
>>> drupal.org (via google, the search form seems not to be there)
>>> But found very little. eg:
>>> http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2004-03/msg00566.html
>>>
>>> Is there any reason why I should not think of phpgacl and Drupal
>>> together? (I am wondering why nobody has considered phpgacl for
>>> Drupal)
>>>
>>> Could you recommend me some group management modules in Drupal? Or any
>>> hints, anything that relates to permission control & gacl?
>>> I am thinking about including phpgacl into Drupal.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>>  roman
>>>
>>>       
>>
>>
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