By mda-1 on

I investigated existing drupal access control modules to determine what I was going to do on some sites I am working on.
I cleaned up my notes and they are here, for whatever use anyone might want to make of them:
http://apacam.org/drupalaccess.html
I discuss these modules: groups, taxonomy_access, groupapi, term_access, node_permissions

-mda

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robertdouglass commented

I was swimming in confusion because of the similarities and differences in these modules, and now have a much better idea where they all fit in with each other. Good work.

- Robert Douglass

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

I think you missed one.

http://lists.drupal.org/archives/drupal-devel/2004-06/msg00698.html

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robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

It wasn't clear from the posts in that thread whether there are any actual implementations based on this module. Are there? Where are they, and how can we test them out?

Thanks,

- Robert Douglass

P.S. I generally think that abstraction layers of this sort are a very good idea and that they can potentially spawn pluggable solutions that one can tailor to one's needs much more easily than hacking the core code for every site that needs unique behavior.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

A number of the presented ideas have or had indeed implementations. You'd need to dig around a bit in various sandboxes. The IMHO most promising approach is JonBob's:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/sandbox/jonbob/node_permissi...

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