Access Control for all (Part 3)
20 Dec 2006
You could be forgiven for thinking that I've not been up to much lately, after all it's a month or so since I wrote something on my blog. However that's not the case, and I have in fact been quite busy making changes here and there.
New Cakeforge Project
One of the things I have been looking at is how to better manage the content of this site, as the cost of...
How to delete an MPTT Node
03 Sep 2006
If you use MPTT tables anywhere (The cake acl system uses it) you may have found that when you delete an entry, the lft and rght fields for the neighouring nodes don't get updated. This may have rather dire concequences ;)
There is an open ticket for how to delete from the cake acl tables, but as it is potentially quite generic, I thought I'd include the (potential)...
Authentication
09 May 2006
Rant Alert
There have been a number of debates in the Google group about Authentication and how it can be done. There is a vast amount of confusion (IMHO).
So what is Authentication?
I searched the internet and found a defenition which should be of use:
Authentication is any process by which you verify that someone is who they claim they are. ...