Re: Definitions

michiel nugter wrote:
> Hi TaMeR,
> 
> As far as I can see (I'm still finding my way in LiveUser) it basically
> comes down to this.
> 
> With the applications and the areas you define your application itself.
> When you define a certain right you assign this right to an area.
> 
> For example: If you have a website with news and articles you can define
> it as follows: Define your website as the application. Then make two
> areas, one for the news-management and one for the article-management.
> 
> In this example you can assign different rights to both areas for
> managing the information. When adding a new user/group you can assign
> certain rights to this user. There will be times that you want to give a
> certain user access to the news section but not to the articles section.
> With the different areas this is possible without losing insight in the
> defined rights.
> 
> As for user and groups, they basically focus on the user-part of
> LiveUser. To clarify: Groups and areas are not directly related to one
> another. When assigning rights to a user/group you assign a certain
> right that belongs to a certain area.
> 
> 
> On http://oss.backendmedia.com/LiveUser/ is a diagram that clarifies
> this whole story a bit clearer. I do recommend to read this article:
> http://www.php-mag.net/magphpde/magphpde_article/psecom,id,595,nodeid,21.html.
> It explained a lot to me.
> 
> As for the rights_implied: With LiveUser you can imply a right. For
> example: you have two rights: one to read and one to write. You can off
> course assign both rights to a user/group. This creates some confusion
> and isn't always very logic. With LiveUser you can say if that if a user
> has a certain right the user automatically obtains another right. In the
> example mentioned you would imply the read right by the write right. You
> now only have to assign the write right to a user for him to read and
> write.

This feature is available in the "Complex" layer as well. There is a
different set of features for every layer.  Have a look at
http://pooteeweet.org/files/phpworks05/LiveUser_tour.pdf

Arnaud.