Best Way to Organize Controllers for Multiple Roles

[lauraw]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize controllers based on
user roles and could use some advice. I know there are experienced
people here who have had to deal with this already :-).

I have controller folders setup as:

member/
manager/
admin/

They all deal with products and I don't want to have one
ProductController at the controllers/ level that has all the functions
(view a product, add a product, delete a product). This is the way I'd
like to set it up:

member/product_controller - view()
manager/product_controller - add()
admin/product_controller - delete()

What is the best way to accomplish this division of controller
functionality? I know that I can modify the paths for controllers in
bootstrap.php, but if I have the same controller under multiple
locations, which one will cake find? The first in the list I assume?
The other solution I was thinking of is to name the controllers
differently, but is this the best way to do it?

mem_product_controller
mgr_product_controller
adm_product_controller

I'm new to CakePHP ... I'm not sure if this is doable with cake's MVC
naming conventions.

Thanks for your help!

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[Miles J]

You can't separate controllers into folders like you can in
CodeIgniter/Zend. You would have to use prefixes, which is only
present in 1.3, which is still alpha.

Or you can create separate plugins for each member/manager/admin, but
that becomes too much.

Or you just use 1 controller, and use an ACL type system that
determines what they can and cannot do.

On Nov 5, 7:45 am, lauraw <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize controllers based on
> user roles and could use some advice. I know there are experienced
> people here who have had to deal with this already :-).
>
> I have controller folders setup as:
>
> member/
> manager/
> admin/
>
> They all deal with products and I don't want to have one
> ProductController at the controllers/ level that has all the functions
> (view a product, add a product, delete a product). This is the way I'd
> like to set it up:
>
> member/product_controller - view()
> manager/product_controller - add()
> admin/product_controller - delete()
>
> What is the best way to accomplish this division of controller
> functionality? I know that I can modify the paths for controllers in
> bootstrap.php, but if I have the same controller under multiple
> locations, which one will cake find? The first in the list I assume?
> The other solution I was thinking of is to name the controllers
> differently, but is this the best way to do it?
>
> mem_product_controller
> mgr_product_controller
> adm_product_controller
>
> I'm new to CakePHP ... I'm not sure if this is doable with cake's MVC
> naming conventions.
>
> Thanks for your help!

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[lauraw]

I'm going to be implemented/learning ACL as part of this project so
I'll go that route. Thanks, Miles!
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