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Simple access control
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For those who feel, the Controller->accessRules() or RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) is too complicated or lengthily to codedoesn't want the username(s) to be hard-coded in accessRules(), here is a very simple, easy-to-implement solution.
Considerations
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As usual, you will have a table, holding the user's data, such as: username, password, email, real_name, etc. To store the user rights, you need an additional field, named **admin_level**. This will be an unsigned tinyint, and will hold the user's rights to do things around the site.
You will define the admin levels, according to your needs. Now, for this example, let's define 4 levels:
Considerations
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As usual, you will have a table, holding the user's data, such as: username, password, email, real_name, etc. To store the user rights, you need an additional field, named **admin_level**. This will be an unsigned tinyint, and will hold the user's rights to do things around the site.
You will define the admin levels, according to your needs. Now, for this example, let's define 4 levels:
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