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TinyAuth – The fastest and easiest authorization for Cake2
The cake built in CRUD auth is way too powerful and way too slow and memory consuming. In 99% of all cases there is no need for that. Also, I never really used the groups + roles of the core ACL. Basic...
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More persistent sessions in Cake2.x
This has been an issue for me way too long. I always hated the fact that users are logged out almost every few hours. Compared to other sites on the www it was ridiculously short, no matter how long...
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Auth – inline authorization the easy way
I wrote a wrapper class to make inline authorization easier. Often times you want to check on certain roles inside an action or view and depending on the result display specific content or execute...
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ACL – Access Control Lists – revised
With a focus on CakePHP application development. Authentication vs Authorization Those two are often confused. So here a little preface: Authentication always comes first. It is about whether you are...
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CakePHP and connecting to GitHub API
I had to write a small tool to automate releasing certain GitHub repositories, and for that to authenticate I had to connect to GitHub API. The integration wasn’t super-easy as there was no...
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