ACL

O behavior Acl provê uma maneira discreta de integrar um model com o seu sistema Acl. Ele pode criar AROs e ACOs de maneira transparente.

Para usar um novo behavior, basta adicioná-lo à propriedade $actAs do seu model. Ao adicionar o behavior você pode optar por fazer dessa entrada um ARO ou um ACO. O padrão é criar um ARO.

class User extends AppModel {
    var $actsAs = array('Acl' => array('type' => 'requester'));
}

A maneira acima vincula o behavior Acl como ARO. Para vincular como o behavior como ACO use:

class Post extends AppModel {
    var $actsAs = array('Acl' => array('type' => 'controlled'));
}

Você pode ainda vincular o behavior Acl facilmente da seguinte maneira:

$this->Post->Behaviors->attach('Acl', array('type' => 'controlled'));

Using the AclBehavior

Most of the AclBehavior works transparently on your Model’s afterSave(). However, using it requires that your Model has a parentNode() method defined. This is used by the AclBehavior to determine parent->child relationships. A model’s parentNode() method must return null or return a parent Model reference.

function parentNode() {
    return null;
}

If you want to set an ACO or ARO node as the parent for your Model, parentNode() must return the alias of the ACO or ARO node.

function parentNode() {
        return 'root_node';
}

A more complete example. Using an example User Model, where User belongsTo Group.

function parentNode() {
    if (!$this->id && empty($this->data)) {
        return null;
    }
    $data = $this->data;
    if (empty($this->data)) {
        $data = $this->read();
    }
    if (!$data['User']['group_id']) {
        return null;
    } else {
        $this->Group->id = $data['User']['group_id'];
        $groupNode = $this->Group->node();
        return array('Group' => array('id' => $groupNode[0]['Aro']['foreign_key']));
    }
}

In the above example the return is an array that looks similar to the results of a model find. It is important to have the id value set or the parentNode relation will fail. The AclBehavior uses this data to construct its tree structure.

node()

The AclBehavior also allows you to retrieve the Acl node associated with a model record. After setting $model->id. You can use $model->node() to retrieve the associated Acl node.

You can also retrieve the Acl Node for any row, by passing in a data array.

$this->User->id = 1;
$node = $this->User->node();

$user = array('User' => array(
    'id' => 1
));
$node = $this->User->node($user);

Will both return the same Acl Node information.