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This article shows how to use CakePHP's ACL to control user access to different parts of a website. It covers CakePHP 1.1.10.3825 (November, 2006)

Cake AC is a very powerful but generic access control sytem. Lets face it, the only real use for Access Control is User permissions. So let us look at the common every day use for Access Control.

This tutorial will brief you on how to use Acl in CakePHP 1.2.x versions. I had tough time figuring this out. But with help of Gwoo, AD7Six & others, and doing debugging and reading code, here comes the tutorial.

This component follows the traditional way of acl only slightly modifying it. In example there's an inheritance feature, which will help tremendously the access controlling because you don't have to specify every action in aros_acos-table.

A simple, easy, AJAXY, solution for managing your access control lists.

This behavior is built off of the core Acl behavior. It fixes some issues with the core behavior and allows you to set a model as both an Aro and Aco. It also adds the alias where as the core behavior doesn't.